Anna Goldfarb Explains Modern Friendship: Part 1
Don't tell anyone this, but did you know that if you ask people to be on your podcast, they'll just talk to you? This continues to blow my mind.
In anticipation of another heavy subject – and the innate importance of social relationships – the next two weeks will be about friendship, Plan style. In other words, not just their abstract academic characteristics (much as I love those) but how to make them, and how to keep them. Turns out that having A Plan is actually really effective!
Anna Goldfarb has been called "the New York Times Friendship correspondent," and with a title like that how could I resist? We talk about her great new book Modern Friendship, which is an extremely practical approach to building and keeping friendships, but above all to seeing their value, and making intentional choices about them. We talk about the fact that there's only one source of good data on international friendship (but plenty of data on 5,000 other things), the dangers of friendship Cheetos, and the social foibles of squid.
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