How TV Dating Shows Made Me Better at Relationships

Gabe Zichermann
8 min readJun 23, 2020
Can Netflix’s Dating Around help me find true love?

I’ll admit that I’m a bit late to trashy reality TV.

For years, I’ve criticized those obsessed with shows such as the Real Housewives for having frittered away time they could have spent watching any number of informative documentaries on PBS. I came from a very clear POV that that kind of television was terrible for humanity and our future, and I yearned for highbrow…

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Gabe Zichermann

Author and Public Speaker on Gamification, The 4th Industrial Revolution, the Future of Work and Failure. More about me: https://gabezichermann.com