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In her new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times , Oldfield talks about long having had “a hunch” that the notion of the nuclear family is “a weird building material for a society”. She doesn’t think it’s “sufficiently load-bearing for the weight placed on it, leaving lots of other options lying around, unloved”. And, she writes... See more
Lucy Denyer • Our middle-class commune (joint bank accounts, noisy sex and all)
I built my first AI NPC teammates and here’s what I learnt
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Back in the 1980s, the Oxford psychologists Michael Argyle and Monika Henderson wrote a seminal paper titled “The Rules of Friendship.” Its six takeaways are obvious, but what the hell, they’re worth restating: In the most stable friendships, people tend to stand up for each other in each other’s absence; trust and confide in each other; support ea... See more
Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?
We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLU
... See moreJonathan Haidt is right when he talks about the sudden switch from play-based to phone-based childhoods and how it destroyed mental health—particularly for young girls. Our childhoods weren’t spent toying with risk and danger, teaching ourselves we could cope with it, learning that it’s baked into life. We had bans on play fighting. Health and safe... See more