The Luminaries Journal
Posts tagged with #third-places.
This archive holds every Luminaries article tagged third places. 2 articles so far, working through intentional living and identity and masculinity, all written by Abraham Ojo. The most recent is "Americans Lost 20 Hours a Month of Friend Time Since 2003. Now a New Business Charges Them to Get It Back.". Each post stands on its own, and the full list is at the bottom of this page.
Time with friends has collapsed since 2003. A wave of paid, phone-free "third places" is charging people by the hour to get some of it back, and it is working.
The internet is arguing about why men are lonely. The data says something simpler and more fixable: male friendship was always venue-based, and the venues are gone.
2 articles by Abraham Ojo, grouped by the theme each one works through.