Loneliness
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Loneliness
“Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to ho
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Brian Chesky on loneliness
Over the course of 14 hours, we rolled up our sleeves and got our hands dirty generating creative ideas to address disconnection, loneliness, polarization, and other deep-rooted societal challenges.
Disconnection is the disease. Creativity is the cure. The creativity revolution has begun.
When hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are crawling out from the wreckage of that hyper-individualism—which left many families detached and unsupported—and people are experimenting with more connected ways of living, with new shapes and varie... See more
David Brooks • The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
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I spent like all of my 20s obsessed with trying to fix the loneliness problem - hosted tons of events, tried starting a company around it, etc.
Main two takeaways
1) The fact that you can stay home and basically self-medicate with content in a way that feels not-quite-bored is the biggest ba... See more
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