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How to Talk to People: The Infrastructure of Community

How to Age Up

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The Importance of Slowing Down

Some public spaces give us that feeling of being part of a shared project and others really don't. Luke Steiner: efficiency is the enemy of social life. You tend to enrich your social life when you stop and linger and waste time. It's hard for us to come to terms with just how forcefully the ticking clock shapes our capacity to take pleasure in social life.

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