On the wire

●DATING GAME · The first message problem. ●BROTHERHOOD · The male friendship recession. ●DATING GAME · Situationships: the relationship category that isn’t. ●STATUS · Granovetter’s weak ties and the people you haven’t met yet. ●BODY · The fitness effect: what the research shows and what it doesn’t. ●ATTRACTION · The confidence variable. ●STYLE · What your shoes communicate before you say anything. ●ATTRACTION · What Buss found.

Hub 06 · 1 dispatches

Brotherhood

Male friendship, mentorship, fatherhood, mental health — the parts no app fixes.

DISPATCH No 01

The male friendship recession.

American men have been losing close friends for thirty years. The data is consistent. The explanations are structural, not psychological.

Daniel Kestrel 7 min