> More free wheeling discussion like with a circle of friends is what these discussion groups fill for me, and that’s hard to quit. I’ve enjoyed discussion boa

> More free wheeling discussion like with a circle of friends is what these discussion groups fill for me, and that’s hard to quit. I’ve enjoyed discussion boards long before smartphones, but have been spending more time scrolling them on my phone than I’d like since 2020. This point, along with the author’s discussion of “the desire underneath the desire” is making me think that I’m actually just missing the types of conversations I’d have with coworkers at lunch or over happy hour beers before I started to work from home full time. Most of my close friends are not programmers or involved in startups, so this sort of makes sense to me as a missing social outlet.