Evie May
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Evie May
Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction. To know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life, to make plans with them, and then reschedule those plans when someone inevitably gets sick, and then bring over Calpol or soup or an extra laptop charger. To water their plants while they’re away, to ask them to take your kids when you’re... See more
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
Human beings aren’t meant to be optimized. We are meant to be in relationship. In conflict. In care. In community. And community, here, doesn’t mean constant harmony. Because, ew, that’s not real life, nor should it be. Community comes with burden, it comes with inconvenience, it comes with conflict. But somehow, we’ve deluded ourselves into... See more
Gloria Alamrew • Healing is Making Us Mean
Designing Friction – a call for friction in digital culture – explores the concept of consciously reintroducing obstacles and resistance in our online interactions to foster human connections. It can be seen as a new design paradigm not focussing on seamless experiences but on human connection. What does it mean to be human?”
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substack.com
Friction is inevitable in human relationships. It can be uncomfortable, even maddening. Yet friction can be meaningful—as a check on selfish behavior or inflated self-regard; as a spur to look more closely at other people; as a way to better understand the foibles and fears we all share.
Damon Beres • The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
There is no such thing as closeness without friction.
The Friendship Theory of Everything
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amazon.co.ukWhat counts as progress?
open.spotify.com“Yet when we understand winter in the natural world, we realize that what we see out there is not death so much as dormancy. Some life has died, of course. But much of it has gone underground, into hibernation, awaiting a season of renewal and rebirth. So winter invites us to name whatever feels dead in us, to wonder whether it might in fact be
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