We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
Wednesday Night Pizza Club
People spend 20 hours less a month with friends than they used to. But you can change that.
Young people five times more likely to have no friends than a decade ago | IPPR
The number of young people with no close friends has increased five-fold since 2014Gen Z are more isolated, more distressed and less productive than previo
Designing for Developers: Key Takeaways from a Founder Dinner
Since moving back to San Francisco at the beginning of last year, I’ve been hosting regular founder dinners. Last night, I hosted a…
Dunbar’s number: why my theory that humans can only maintain 150 friendships has withstood 30 years of scrutiny
The claim that our brain size limits us to 150 meaningful friendships has been challenged by a recent paper.
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.
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.
Americans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
Our survey finds significant, double-digit declines in Americans’ participation in key social activities from 1995 to 2026.
Why 30 is the decade friends disappear — and what to do about it
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McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's the glue that holds communities together
When many lower-income Americans feel isolated and empty, they yearn for physical social networks. All across US, this happens organically at McDonald’s
Business As Usual Interrupted By Business As Usual, Followed By Business As Usual
Conspiracies are flourishing in the aftermath of gunfire at The White House Correspondents' Association dinner
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public. Which is what…
