Thank you to all my new subscribers! I hope you enjoyed my piece last week, and enjoy this week’s post. In her book, Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond, science journalist Lydia Denworth argues that your 30s are “the decade where friendship goes to die”.
May 30, 2023·edited May 30, 2023Liked by Nikil Ramanathan
Being proactive is important. It's also important to figure out where longer lasting relationships will realistically form for you. Is it a meetup event, the workplace, a maker space...is it some place much different? What do you value most out of a friendship? These are some of things I think about.
Apr 27, 2023·edited Apr 27, 2023Liked by Nikil Ramanathan
Rly like the genuine take of this piece.
Been thinking ab this too in the context of specifically knowledge workers - *why do we drift as we discover ourselves and become different*?
For knowledge workers, I wonder if a part of it is society pushing us to explore spaces and places where there are, frankly, fewer people who can relate. I see this happening more in your 30's. Similar to researchers who spend their time at the edge of the collective knowledge sphere - there are just few people that can occupy that mental headspace. My closest relationships atm are founders, co-founders, and creatives, bc we occupy similar headspaces.
Being proactive is important. It's also important to figure out where longer lasting relationships will realistically form for you. Is it a meetup event, the workplace, a maker space...is it some place much different? What do you value most out of a friendship? These are some of things I think about.
Rly like the genuine take of this piece.
Been thinking ab this too in the context of specifically knowledge workers - *why do we drift as we discover ourselves and become different*?
For knowledge workers, I wonder if a part of it is society pushing us to explore spaces and places where there are, frankly, fewer people who can relate. I see this happening more in your 30's. Similar to researchers who spend their time at the edge of the collective knowledge sphere - there are just few people that can occupy that mental headspace. My closest relationships atm are founders, co-founders, and creatives, bc we occupy similar headspaces.