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Writes about AI companionship, and about what our tools are quietly doing to the way we talk to each other. Has been starting companies since the early nineties and is still mostly interested in why people find each other so difficult.

Your hands are steady. Your voice is level. Your heart is going like a washing machine full of bricks and you are convinced everyone can hear it.

How to Make Friends as an Adult (When You're Starting From Scratch in a New City)

Kindness online isn't a nice-to-have — it's a design choice, and the data shows it. This post makes the case for why platforms that let cruelty go unchecked lose trust, users, and even advertisers, then scores the 10 biggest social platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Discord) on a 1–100 "Kindness Preservation Score" — built from GLAAD's Social Media Safety Index, Pew Research survey data, peer-reviewed toxicity studies, and platform transparency reports. Pinterest and LinkedIn come out on top; X comes out dead last.

Experts recommend 2 hours of recreational screen time per day for adults, but the type of screen time matters more than the total. Here's the science and a realistic framework.

Someone you like says something you think is genuinely harmful. You have two options in your head, and both are bad: nod along and hate yourself, or push back and detonate the…

One sentence moved revision rates from 17 percent to 71 percent.

You would have told anyone that you were fine about your friend moving away. Then a song comes on in a supermarket and you are suddenly, embarrassingly close to tears next to the…

A friend calls, in pieces, for the fourth time this month. You care. You genuinely do. And you also feel your stomach drop when you see their name on the screen, and then feel…

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Kai's Spaces feature grew from a single post to 302 user-created communities in two months — explore the top 100 Spaces, from confession rooms to dating circles, and see how organic growth reshaped the platform. Join an existing Space or create your own today.