Social Capital
Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.
We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.
Allie Conti • We Really Should Hang Out More Often
Way beneath every step you’ve ever taken and every step you will take is this thing called mycelium. Long threads of fungi that grow one cell at a time, branching and re-branching, growing in every direction. They even grow three-dimensionally.
Is the Secret to Life a Good Email?
In many ways, we are very similar to mycelium.
We need the right conditions to survive and a constant flow of oxygen. We need to communicate to grow.
We need to connect to live.
A good connection is how quickly your world can change when you meet the right person.
We need the right conditions to survive and a constant flow of oxygen. We need to communicate to grow.
We need to connect to live.
A good connection is how quickly your world can change when you meet the right person.
Is the Secret to Life a Good Email?
In studies of peer groups, Laura L. Carstensen, a psychology professor who is the director of the Stanford Center on Longevity in California, observed that people tended to interact with fewer people as they moved toward midlife, but that they grew closer to the friends they already had.
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (Published 2012)
Anyhow—we shouldn’t even be having this discussion .
We’re the richest country in the world. Heck, California is one of the richest countries in the world. And, in favor of our shitty rugged individualism , we have let the greater good go by the wayside. To put it kindly.
Melisse and I observed that—at least—in San Francisco, we could roll out of... See more
We’re the richest country in the world. Heck, California is one of the richest countries in the world. And, in favor of our shitty rugged individualism , we have let the greater good go by the wayside. To put it kindly.
Melisse and I observed that—at least—in San Francisco, we could roll out of... See more
Rocco Pendola • The Good And Bad During A Week In San Francisco: How It Impacted My Thinking About The Move To Spain
I struggle to understand why this feeling moves me so much, but there is just nothing else like it. From being so immersed in a conversation that you leave a changed person to getting a job through a friend of a friend.
These precious, golden moments. Sometimes it feels like fate, like we were just in the right place at the right time, sometimes... See more
These precious, golden moments. Sometimes it feels like fate, like we were just in the right place at the right time, sometimes... See more
Is the Secret to Life a Good Email?
Is the secret to life a good email?
Is the Secret to Life a Good Email?
As Oldenburg notes, people’s roles at home and the office are carefully circumscribed, but there’s no status markers at the dive bar except for the ability to drive conversation. That means the tone of such a chat is more playful than purposeful and that it’s completely democratic — if either party stops being entertained at any point, they can... See more
What Happens When Our Third Places Go Away?
it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of... See more