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I don't know the author, but my initial take is: loner, work-a-holic, egotist. None of that is meant as an insult. To "socialize" in a local sense doesn't need
by stickhandle 14y ago
I don't know the author, but my initial take is: loner, work-a-holic, egotist. None of that is meant as an insult. To "socialize" in a local sense doesn't need to mean you meet "with over 400 people, one-on-one, went to every conference and get-together, and said yes to every request". It means making friends: the kind that build decks together (with free beer); go bowling, watch the big game together at the pub instead of at home, go for a hike with the kids, meet up at the coffee shop every Thursday morning, and simply help and grow together. Its not work. Its natural. Fun. Community. The author is missing out.
- icebraining 14y agohttps://sivers.org/friends https://sivers.org/friends
- stickhandle 14y agoI saw the link to friends in the article. I think that page is a good idea. But I also read that in the 3 yrs in Woodstock - he "never met anyone". In the 3 yrs in Portland - "some dear and deep friends (made) worldwide, but none in Portland". I'm certain there were great folks in both places that could have been great friends that changed the authors life for the better. Unfortunately, these folks were local and probably provided little support for either cd baby or host baby.
- sivers 14y agoHome was the place that I would just work. I was going to so many conferences and such, that all my social time was out of town.
- stickhandle 14y agoNo disrespect intended, Derek. I got a different message from your post - one that glorifies isolation to intimacy because intimacy is hard(er). Balance is a passionate mantra for me. Peace.
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- adrianbye 14y agoor he's not, and this is a happy balance for him. not everything is what you see on tv