the friendship theory of everything - by Ava

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Housekeeping: if you’re interested in the kinds of conversations we have on this Substack, I’m doing a workshop on conflict and friendship in SF in exactly one week (!!) on May 18th. We will explore our personal relationship with conflict, experiment with initiating and receiving conversations that invoke conflict, and learn together about how conflict brings us towards better relationships. I would love to see you there :) At dinner last night, B asked me if I was sure I would keep living in the Bay Area. I said yes. He said that he himself was feeling uncertain, since he wasn’t sure if he would continue working in tech. He asked if becoming a writer had similarly affected my desire to stay in San Francisco. When I first moved to San Francisco at 19 I thought it was for the technology industry, but I’ve since realized that I’m in fact just interested in the type of people who tend to be fascinated with technology, or at least some subset of them. My friends are all pretty anti-author

Ross Bleckner, Falling Birds, 1994 Housekeeping: if you’re interested in the kinds of conversations we have on this Substack, I’m doing a workshop on conflict and friendship in SF in exactly one week (!!) on May 18th. We will explore our personal relationship with conflict, experiment with initiating and receiving conversations that invoke conflict, and learn together about how conflict brings us towards better relationships. I would love to see you there :) At dinner last night, B asked me if I was sure I would keep living in the Bay Area. I said yes. He said that he himself was feeling…

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