How do we feel understood and connected in a world that feels so disparate and isolated? Part of our problem is we’ve killed the primary way we form bonds: hanging out. We’ve replaced it with either the superficial or the overly scheduled. We don’t meet up and then figure out what to do; we put it in our Google calendars months in advance. We let some scheduler drive our interactions. And even when we do have those moments of being around others, we reach for a distraction to minimize the awkwardness, boredom, or filling time that dominated our interactions historically. We’ve taken away the
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