trying to solve the loneliness crisis with vc-backed technology is like using a flamethrower to light the candles on a birthday cake
every entrepreneur, at some point… likely early on tries to build a type of social calendar app.
then they (hopefully) quickly realize they’re not solving scheduling… they’re solving human chaos, flakiness, inertia, social politics, & the deep ambivalence so many people feel about making plans at all. that’s just the... See more
signüllx.comLoneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is so critical, why aren’t we doing more to fix it? Because we’ve been collectively ashamed to talk about loneliness . Our silence has incubated one of the most insidious crises our society has to face.... See more
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
