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Saba

@saba____a

building tiny dinner: dinner parties with friends of friends ✨ prev theSkimm

 New York City
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Joined August 2017
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if you’re ’not a halloween person’ that’s suss tbh
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nearly a month later and people are still sending this to me. 70% was our “guesstimate” on the decline in dinner parties which we used on tiny dinner’s about us page for the last 2 years hoping no one would ask for our messy triangulated math…
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Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) profile pictureDerek Thompson
@DKThompSep 29
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years. derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
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grateful to @DKThomp and @DataProgress for giving us a much stronger source, but the truth is that none of this is surprising. we've felt it. we knew something was off. we've been craving this.
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it's why one dinner hosted with the mission to inspire others to host led to 450 more... in our tiny corner of the world, dinner parties are so back
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some friday night ideas 1) just like smoking companies had to pay for anti-smoking ads, social media companies should have to pay for go-do-things-IRL ads (1/x)
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2) companies that aren’t providing sufficient employee work-life balance should have to pay for publicly accessible social spaces and programs (2/x)
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wow i really just forgot to finish this thread for nearly 6 months
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i forgot about libraries. we need to fund the libraries! i think you got this one @amazon
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let them all put a few bucks down to repair the social fabric they ripped into. and it’s not about punishment, it’s about how we all work together to create a world we want to live in (6/x)
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5) all the delivery apps, whoever makes self checkout counters or the bots that answer customer service calls - it’s cool, i get it, you were just trying to make things “frictionless” for us busy worker bees (see #2)- but let’s see you spend some $ to fight social isolation (5/x)
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4) dating app companies - you aren’t off the hook either. we know exactly what you did and what you need to do, too. (@hinge you’re ahead of the curve with the “One More Hour” fund.) (4/x)
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and 3) AI companies should have to fund local community gatherings. Fun ones that people would actually want to go to (3/x)
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if i keep seeing ads for your product im not buying it bc now i know that you must be overpricing it to cover that cac
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nyc, i want you to host more this spring. giving away five $200 tiny grants to new yorkers with an idea for a gathering. lmk if you’re applying! tiny-dinner.com/tinygrant
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“how come we have advanced AI but Alexa and Siri are still stupid” -my husband and honestly good q
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Sharing 8+ meals a week with people has the same happiness boost as DOUBLING your income. And yet we eat alone 53% more than we did 20 years ago.
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there is nothing i love more than being removed from a whatsapp group
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Replying to @TsarinaBomba
the scandinavian mind can’t comprehend designing something ugly even for a good cause
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if you can’t find your people in nyc then it’s either bc you’re not looking hard enough or bc you need to find yourself first
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normal person: i have an appointment in 10 min and it’s a 10 min walk so i’ll leave now me: i have an appointment in 10 min and it’s a 10 min walk so i’ll sit here and do nothing for 4 min and then run / walk superrr fast and arrive stressed and breathless 👌
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