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 05 · 1 dispatches

Status

Career capital, social proof, the invisible economy of being taken seriously.

DISPATCH No 01

Granovetter’s weak ties and the people you haven’t met yet.

The 1973 paper that explained job markets also explains why your close friends are unlikely to introduce you to your next partner.

Daniel Kestrel 7 min