Episode Details

My father was the unlikely combination of a small-town hero and a reclusive introvert, yet still built a network where everybody knew his name and showed up when it mattered most. In this episode, I explore how that analog network stood in stark contrast to a world where even simple conversations have been replaced by exhausting systems and our lives have become nothing more than an endless series of transactions. Join me as I dig into why the robots are just shovels digging our existential hole of loneliness, and why the path forward isn’t more connections or more swipes but a few incredibly valuable relationships, because the quality of your life is ultimately determined by the quality of your human relationships.

All that in more in my latest Substack → ​We've created a world where nobody knows our names.

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