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John Pistelli is a writer and culture commentator, and the mind behind the wonderful Tumblr Grand Hotel Abyss, which I found, embarrassingly enough, Googling my own name. We talked the lifecycle of woke human resources policies, rebelling against “the Man,” what gives Internet personalities longevity, and of course, wh…