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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 …
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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 …
LifeQuanta Magazine
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.
LifeThe 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 …
LifeNautilus
How Mental Time Travel Can Make Us Better People
Kindness lives in the future-present.
LifeBloomberg
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.
LifeHacker 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 …
LifeGuardian
'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 …
LifeNeel 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 …
LifeSifted
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.
Career LifeHarvard 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 …
LifeJean'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 …
LifeAadil 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 …
Lifeunfurled 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 …
LifeExperimental 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 …
LifeNature
Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
Difficult tasks can lead to build-up of a signalling molecule in the brain, triggering fatigue.
LifeHacker 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 …
LifeThe 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.
LifeAmerican 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 …
Life Remote Work WorkJames 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 …
LifeDKB Show
Life Is Not Short
“The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people …
LifeThe 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 …
LifeBill 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 …
LifeBBC
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 …
LifeHacker 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?
LifeVice
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.
LifeJakob 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 …
LifeJohnny Rodgers
A modern home
Many friends, family, and acquaintances have asked us about the process. What follows is a long, roughly linear account of …
LifeNPR
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 …
LifeSeth's Blog
Don't waste the good days
If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow.
If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing.
When …
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