Life

NPR

Would you live next to co-workers for the right price? This company is betting yes

So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to …

Here & Now

You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard

According to Franco, the key to building a community of friends is setting up planned interactions, like regular group events …

Quanta Magazine

How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.

The Atlantic

How My Wife and I Took Back Our Sundays

We have an agreement: One day a week, we do absolutely nothing. In a society obsessed with productivity, this is harder than …

Nautilus

How Mental Time Travel Can Make Us Better People

Kindness lives in the future-present.

Bloomberg

Humans Hold the Key to Collaboration No Matter How Good the Software Tools

What the management theory “forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning” can teach us.

Hacker News

What is the best advice you received in 2022?

I am a believer I can learn from anywhere and I thought I can ask HN folks to share what they learned or received advice that …

Guardian

'I want to savour every word': the joy of reading slowly

Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days …

Neel Nanda

Intentionally Making Close Friends

One of the greatest sources of joy in my life are my close friends. People who bring excitement and novelty into my life. Who …

Sifted

What not to say to someone who has just been laid off

Think about comforting someone who has been laid off like you’d comfort someone who has lost family.

Harvard Business Review

Stop Telling Introverts to Act Like Extroverts

However, studies have also shown that acting more extroverted than you are can take a substantial mental toll in the …

Jean's Newsletter

Finding the joy in feeling tired

How we treat tiredness sometimes feels like how we treat anger — we try to avoid it, we try to distract from it, we try not …

Aadil Ali

An extremely opinionated guide on making friends for people who are exactly like me

The whole point of making friends for me is to find people I’m energized by. It’s worth it to meet a hundred …

unfurled spirals

one piece of advice

I’ve been chatting with many young people lately, and they are all generally very stressed and anxious about the …

Experimental History

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Givers think that conversations unfold as a series of invitations; takers think conversations unfold as a series of …

Nature

Why thinking hard makes us feel tired

Difficult tasks can lead to build-up of a signalling molecule in the brain, triggering fatigue.

Hacker News

I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?

I dream about doing my own thing or retiring early to do other projects. It is probably human to always want more.

So HN, how …

The Washington Post

One roommate is 85, the other is 27. Such arrangements are growing.

‘We’ll be friends for life,’ Siobhan Ennis said of her roommate, who is 58 years her senior.

American Compass

Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work

The conflict between responsibilities at home and at work is largely the result of economic transitions to which we …

James Clear

Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

Life never seems to just work itself out for us. If anything, our lives become more complicated and gradually decline into …

DKB Show

Life Is Not Short

“The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people …

The Wall Street Journal

Quitting Twitter? What People Say About Life After Social Media

How does it feel to flee from the feeds? Mostly worth it, say people who ditched Twitter, Facebook and Instagram—but there …

Bill Mei

Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities

In my early attempts to make friends, I tried inviting people with shared interests to activities like sailing or grabbing …

BBC

The Dutch city testing the future of urban life

With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, can Almere give …

Hacker News

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose to live?

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose to live?

Vice

Young People Are Lonelier Than Ever

30 percent say they don’t know how to make new friends and they’ve never felt more alone.

Jakob Greenfeld

The simple system I'm using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

So unless you have a solid system, chances are high that you won’t reach out to people regularly and miss out on a ton …

Johnny Rodgers

A modern home

Many friends, family, and acquaintances have asked us about the process. What follows is a long, roughly linear account of …

NPR

More than 1 million fewer students are in college. Here's how that impacts the economy

More than 1 million fewer students are enrolled in college now than before the pandemic began. According to new data released …