It’s me. I’m the person you’re canceling on
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It’s me. I’m the person you’re canceling on
It’s become clear that people sometimes become busy in order to feel important, but I mostly feel busy and guilty. I’ve tried reframing that reaction, replacing abject apologies (delays, after all, happen) with gratitude ( thank you so much for your patience ).
Anne Helen Petersen • The Right Kind of Busy
I’ve seen many businesses trying to solve the problem of individuals getting together offline for activities. Existing solutions to this problem seem to be good enough; we can text easily to set up these plans.
Arman Tabatabai • Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups
Because of this cauldron of factors, over the last few centuries, we have increasingly sacrificed community for work and convenience. We live in a society in which it is acceptable to cancel plans with friends for work, but never vice versa.
Marisa G. Franco, PhD • Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
🌀 People are quietly quitting Instagram (👋 fellow lurkers)
🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)
🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)
🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content
It’s not anti-digit... See more
🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)
🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)
🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content
It’s not anti-digit... See more
It gets trickier as you age, living. More bad things happen. Your parents, if you’re lucky enough to still have them, have lives so different from your own that you’re looking horizontally, to your own cohort, for cues. And you’re dreading the days when an older generation will no longer be there for you—when you’ll have to rely on another ecosyste
... See moreJennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
