Making friends when you work from home
Proximity, repeated unplanned contact, and time with your guard down. Remote work removed all three at once, and nothing automatically replaced them.
Guides
Notes on meeting people.
What we're learning from putting strangers in rooms together — and the research that explains why it got so hard.
How to go to something alone without it being weird
The hardest part of any event is the ten feet before the door. Here is what the research says about that moment, and what to actually do with your hands.
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Where to meet people in South Jersey
A practical list of the kinds of places that actually put the same people in front of each other, across South Jersey and over the bridge in Philadelphia.
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking — really?
The 15-cigarettes comparison is real, it is properly sourced, and it is routinely mangled. Here is what it does and does not say.
Why is it so hard to meet people in a new city?
The machinery that made your old friendships happen was local, and you left it behind. What that means, and how to rebuild it deliberately.
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