#58 friends > communities

Thankfully there’s a new kind of social unit emerging which may play a crucial role in helping us to overcome this mostly silent epidemic of loneliness and disconnection. It’s already showing up in a number of different flavours but the four versions I’ve been tracking most closely include Pods, Squads, Crews and Digital Gangs. And while each one h... See more

About post-individualismWe’re not going back to collectivism. It’s a new state called post-individualism.Post-individuals define their identity by both their own individual traits as well as which groups and ideologies they voluntarily subscribe to.

I don’t think that we’re meant to navigate our lives solo. That is a narrative that Western culture, specifically when it’s at the intersection of capitalism, really loves to hold — the narrative of hyperindividuality.