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Insights on friendship, connection, and building a stronger social life.
August 14, 2026
Three Things That Make Friendship Work
Take a deeper dive on what signals and drives healthy friendship.
August 14, 2026
Are You a Gentle Friend?
The major institutions of family and marriage have huge influence on the less robust institution of friendship. This article flows a useful idea from friendship to the big two.
July 17, 2026
Relationship Repair Begins and Sometimes Ends With You
Does every disappointment with a friend need to become a conversation? I don't think so. Many relationship repairs can be completed privately, without the other person ever knowing a repair occurred. The important question is whether you can honestly complete the repair yourself.
July 16, 2026
New Friendships Travel on Flat Ground
Building a friendship works best with shared contribution from both people. Lean in and build friendship momentum.
July 13, 2026
How Friendship Builds Core Competence
Some friends leave you more capable than they found you. They give you traction in areas of life that eventually become your core competencies.
July 10, 2026
Newton's Friend Formula: How to Develop More Good Friends
Robin Dunbar described the average ot typical structure of human friendship networks. Newton's Friend Formula explores the conditions that allow those friendship circles to grow through better sources, more social time, recurring events, and lower carry weight.
July 7, 2026
The Local Friend Advantage
Local friends can provide the maximum friend impact through frequency and lower-stakes interactions
July 6, 2026
How to Launch and Manage a Social Club
We will share what we learned in launching what appears to be an initially successful social club.
July 6, 2026
We Reduced the Carry Cost of Shared Contribution
Why our new social club and third space produce more friends faster.