Agalia Tan

Offer “office hours” for your skills. Set aside a couple of hours each week where people can book time with you for advice or help on a specific skill you excel in. It’s a way to give back and build relationships.

In life there are no final statements, no final acts, and even the most final of acts is a question. Which is: where am i going ?

And: did it matter ?

The future won’t be built merely by those who move fastest, but by those who remember how to stand still. Until we recover the courage to receive what we cannot produce, we will mistake velocity for vision. And we’ll keep accelerating—not toward the good, but simply away from the ground.

The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition. We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.

To understand what’s driving this shift, you need only talk to young people. They’re saying that after years spent constructing carefully curated online identities and accumulating heaps of online “friends,” they want to be themselves and make real friends based on shared interests. They’re also craving privacy, safety, and a respite from the thron... See more