Playing board games which involve fair amounts of mathematical understanding are by nature hard to balance. After all, if someone in the group is a lot better at statistics, or understanding conditional probability, it’s likely they’ll have a significant advantage. This is a problem for both cooperative and adversarial board games. In cooperative board games,Continue reading “Math-y Board Games”
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Measuring the Wrong Things (a minor mea culpa)
During the height of my arrogance T-3 months ago, I believed it was possible to write a reasonable rough draft of my book after starting a full time job, while breezing through a masters program, reading Infinite Jest, training for a half marathon, building a business, and keeping up regular blog posts. As I wasContinue reading “Measuring the Wrong Things (a minor mea culpa)”
Finding a Community That Works For You
At this point, you’ve built up the ability to build individual relationships, and now you’re looking to find more alignment about the things that matter to your soul. Finding a community that encourages and facilitates you in doing the things you love is essential to growing into shoes bigger than you thought possible to fill.Continue reading “Finding a Community That Works For You”
Relationship Building
You’ve started to make it into a group and found a hobby worth engaging in. This is great, and you’re definitely on the way to making close friendships. You’ve built a little rapport with several people in the group, and you want to learn how to invite them to hang out sometime. Underneath are severalContinue reading “Relationship Building”
The Logistics Of Small Talk
Who should I talk to? Broadly speaking, if you’re going to a hobby, a sport, or a class that meets regularly, you should be able to approach anyone you’ve seen more than once or twice, and you’ll likely be well-received. So, if you’re in an area you regularly frequent, the people you often see areContinue reading “The Logistics Of Small Talk”
The Noise and The Signal: Why Some Weeks Are Hellish
Blogging makes my failures acute to anyone reading this. Thus, when I make a claim like the following, I feel strongly about getting it done. Some specifics: “I intend to blog daily for the entire year” (on track, despite WordPress resetting at midnight) “I started my masters in November 2024. I plan on being doneContinue reading “The Noise and The Signal: Why Some Weeks Are Hellish”
Social Skills Self-Assessment
“[Only] what gets measured, gets managed” – Peter Drucker One key tool that will help you in your friendship journey is self-assessment. The aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive self-assessment that identifies key areas of improvement. This exam stays between us, so please assess yourself honestly. It’s better to do so becauseContinue reading “Social Skills Self-Assessment”
Some Common Myths (about friendship)
Part of the reason that making friends in-person on the internet age is challenging is that the internet age lacks thoughtful moderation and synthesis. Anyone can have an opinion, any of the time, about anything. Unfortunately for us, there are more ways to be wrong than to be right. Worse, Hollywood, America’s royal family, seemsContinue reading “Some Common Myths (about friendship)”
Embracing Rejection (Friendship)
You tried to spark a friendship, went out on a limb, and someone didn’t appreciate your efforts. Maybe you’re freaking out. You don’t do this often, and it stings. It was painful feeling snubbed. Perhaps this is further proof that you are incapable of friendships, that you’re irredeemable or unlovable. Jeff, or whatever his nameContinue reading “Embracing Rejection (Friendship)”
Proposed Outline for Men Need Friends Book:
Introduction: Encouragement and onboarding. This section aims to connect the dots between buying the book and approaching the content. This introduction aims to explain to the reader that the journey towards friendship is one that’ll take time. So, you want in on this? In this section, I want to start by establishing who I am,Continue reading “Proposed Outline for Men Need Friends Book:”
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