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The Adult Friendship Crisis Is an Infrastructure Problem

7 min read
Adults want more and deeper friendships. They're getting fewer. The standard advice—put in more effort, be more intentional—misdiagnoses the problem. Friendship has always run on infrastructure: proximity, repetition, low-stakes contact. We've systematically removed all of it.

The Constraint You Won't Name

7 min read
You have one bottleneck limiting almost everything important in your life. You are not working on it. You are working around it. The self-improvement industry exists largely to make that avoidance feel like progress.

The Epistemic Cowardice Trap

7 min read
Remaining conspicuously undecided on contested questions looks like intellectual humility. It's usually strategic ambiguity: a way of preserving social optionality at the cost of honest engagement. The person who never commits never learns from being wrong.

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