building tiny dinner: dinner parties with friends of friends ✨ prev theSkimm
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Joined August 2017
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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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6 community building trends from builders who attended C3:
• intimate gatherings
• private, curated communities
• cross-community collaborations
• creative uses of a member directory
• great artists steal / combinatory play
• rising expectations for community experiences
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How much time per week do you spend in IRL social interactions that aren't work related?
IRL social interactions = spending time face-to-face with people not in your household.
Bonus: Would love to hear what those social interactions are in the comments!
29%0-1 hours per week
24%1-4 hours per week
24%4-8 hours per week
24%8+ hours per week
38 votes • Final results Saba retweeted
Some of us don’t have friends anymore; we have followers. We don’t deeply care about each other’s lives; we consume them as content. Social media platforms took friendship and made it another boring thing to do on a screen.
My latest for After Babel:
afterbabel.com/p/arent-you-l…
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Three months ago I heard Salman Rushdie speak at the PEN World Voices Festival. He said: “A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb … But we are not helpless … We can sing the truth & name the liars.” We must tell better stories than the tyrants.
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After nearly 10 years of operation, @theskimm has hired its first-ever editor-in-chief.
The newsletter-centric publisher also launched its third podcast this morning, Pop Cultured, as part of its continued expansion into audio.
For @Adweek:
adweek.com/media/theskimm-an…
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7) "Our pain is made invisible by our success"
An academic said that in respect to the Chinese diaspora experience recently, and I was undone. A sentence that cut me to the core. A lifetime summed up in 8 words.
The pain doesn't go away. It never goes.
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Growing up, I never imagined someone like me could run for Congress, let alone get elected. To grow up poor, Black, and gay is to not see yourself anywhere. Now, I am honored to have the opportunity of a lifetime.
My full statement:
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You can tell our Democracy is strong bc it's a nail biter when one guy is up by 3 million votes
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Happy Father's Day to the immigrant Papas who may have never explored their own passions because their only dream has been that we are provided for. The ones who never felt like they did enough even though our whole worlds exist because of them.
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To understand inequality in New York, I spent months (and months!) drawing these 100 people. You can see how each of them are likely to be affected by Covid-19 here
nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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The Opening Night of the #LBSPhotographyAwards is finally here! We received over 300 submissions from 55 different countries. The judges have shortlisted eight entries for the exhibition. We'll be announcing the winner tonight!
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“Pictures more than words are the fastest way of drawing you in to a story." -Dave Allan from @whatifglobal
