I always give the client the option to contact them directly, but more often than not, they would rather pay me to be the middleman.
Try your best to complete the task. Are you scared of being exposed as ignorant? Skepta is at his best when he nails this kind of disaffected nonchalance.
Otherwise, you might be starting a job based on your own unfounded assumptions about the client and their business, possibly resulting in a lot of wasted time and a big slice of embarrassment.
Next, the monkeys got to choose between looking at a meaningless image or one that revealed the size of their next water drop. And their brains reflected this paradoxical behavior with lower levels of activity in brain areas that pump out dopamine.
If both tangible rewards and information can be cashed in for a dopamine rush, then both have legitimate crave-worthy value.
Now I wonder if my paying for my technically useless ancestry report is part of a drawn-out chase for a hit of dopamine.
The truth, of course I mean, about other people.