Guides
Short guides on screens, friends and time outside. Every number has a source. Nobody gets lectured.
Start with a guide
- The Loneliness Epidemic: A Practical GuideWhat the numbers say, what they don't, and what one person can do about it this week.9 min
- How to Make (and Keep) Friends as an AdultFriendship runs on repeated hours with the same people. School used to supply them. Now you have to put them on the calendar yourself.8 min
- Screen Time, Phone Addiction and Dopamine: The Outside FixYou can't just delete a habit. You have to give it somewhere else to go.8 min
- Touch Grass: The Science of Time OutsideIt started as an insult. The research says it's decent advice. Here's what time outside is linked to, how much you need, and how to make it stick.7 min
Latest posts
- How to Make Friends as an Adult Man (Without It Being Weird)Don't ask a guy to be your friend. Ask him to come do a thing. Then do it again next week.
- How Much Time Outside Do You Actually Need? (The 120-Minute Rule)About 17 minutes a day. Or two hours on Saturday. The study says either works.
- Things to Do With Friends That Aren't Drinking (Mostly Outside)The bar wins because it needs no planning. Here are 28 plans that need almost none, sorted by how long you've got.
- Do Streaks Work? The Psychology of Not Breaking the ChainYes, while they're alive. The trouble starts the day one breaks. Here's what the research says about both halves.
- The 1000 Hours Outside Challenge, for Adults Who Have JobsA thousand hours a year is about 2.7 hours a day. Here's the math, and four smaller versions you can actually finish.
- How to Ask a Friend to Hang Out (Texts You Can Actually Send)Name the thing, name the time, leave the door open. Then 22 texts for the situations that actually come up.