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Friction by Design - by Yair Livne - Yair’s Newsletter

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A call to create a new generation of social products

If consumer social products aim to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”, they are not currently succeeding in their mission. Loneliness and isolation are large and growing problems in the developed world, with over 20% of US and UK adults classified as lonely and the size of people’s close social networks shrinking rapidly over the last couple of decades. These issues are associated with severe negative health outcomes, and have recently been referred to “the loneliness epidemic”. Similarly in the labor market the difficulty in filling jobs (at…

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