more on the myth of old friends

"what if your friends are your family" is the most obvious idea in the world, and unfortunately also the one that matters most to me

probably a lot of the reason I like conversation pits so much is that they are a design feature that implies that the home’s resident has friends

hi subscribers. this is a piece of longer essay I’m working on; this part is mostly a lead-in to the essay’s real subject, but I think it stands on its own ok, and it continues the theme from the last essay. I’…