







Drerings for friends
27: Friend groups
Kevin Kwok has a schtick about how friend groups underinvest in themselves. A group of people with high mutual trust, shared interests, and low coordination costs have already solved for many of the issues that otherwise prevent humans from accomplishing great things.

How to make a friend fast — the scientific method
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!

AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn - Jake Simonds's Blog
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
We've Lost the Spaces That Foster Friendship
We keep offering individual fixes for loneliness while ignoring the disappearance of the spaces where adults once built real relationships.

You have more ways to connect than ever, but deep friendship feels hard to find – here’s how to build better connections
Despite being more connected than any previous generation, many young people report struggling to build friendships that provide a genuine sense of closeness.

The Science of Making Friends
Starting in early adulthood, our number of friends starts to decrease steadily; there are ways to reverse the tide, writes Elizabeth Bernstein.



Octothorpes: Jailbreaking hashtags to connect websites together
My friend Nik and I share a lot of interests, and we like to write about them on our own websites. We’d hang out and talk about printmaking or building websites or the complexity of planning creative work, only to discover later that one or both of us had
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

Presented our work on how friendship muda lets the expression of hierarchy in cooperation for elementary school children on the lighting talks at #ic2s2 #ic2s22026 @ic2s2.bsky.social today!
I’ll be at #IC2S2 this week! I will be presenting two papers from my lab, led by my amazing students @laylab.bsky.social & @elhamagk.bsky.social. If you’re interested in narratives,mental health, stigma, or NLP, let’s connect! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, and meeting new people.