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Nan Ransohoff / Relationship primitives Try Notion Relationship primitives Nan Ransohoff & Brie Wolfson October 2023 “Spouse,” “friend,” “coworker.” For most of us, these words are shorthand for ‘typical’ activities we do with that person. With a spouse we get married, buy a house, raise children. With friends we get meals, offer advice or share a laugh. With coworkers we make things and meet regularly about it. (As context for the reader: the two of us—Nan and Brie—are friends.) Over the past few months we’ve been reflecting on how, for us, many of the most surprisingly joyful and fulfilling experiences involve doing these activities in the ‘wrong’ context—making a coffee table with a friend, making a podcast with a parent, living with close friends and their kids for six months as an adult. There is of course nothing novel about these activities themselves. Rather, the difference lies in who we do them with. This made us wonder: what else could we mix-and-match to possibly produce si

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