Business
7 hard truths about the loneliness of early entrepreneurship
You expected the late nights. You expected the financial risk. You expected your friends to not fully understand what a pre seed round…
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Loneliness
Business
'I spoke to ChatGPT 8 times a day' - Gen Z's loneliness 'crisis'
AI chatbots are being used as 'surrogate friends' by young people who have lost the ability to socialise. Source link
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AI ‘Friends’ Are No Cure for Loneliness
Introducing the latest in a dangerous line of counterfeit alternatives to true connection. Source link
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Swedish workers trial 'friendship hour' to combat loneliness
Maddy SavageBusiness reporter, Kalmar, Sweden Staff at a major Swedish pharmacy chain are being given paid time off to spend with friends,…
Business
Our built environment is exacerbating the loneliness crisis
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Our built environment contributes to a mental health crisis. The built environment as…
Culture
How Brendan Fraser Confronted His Loneliness in ‘Rental Family’ and His Warning on AI Acting: ‘It Strikes Me as a Form of Plagiarism’
Three years after his triumphant Oscar win for “The Whale,” Brendan Fraser has found his next deeply personal project in an unlikely…
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How to break the solopreneur ‘loneliness loop’
When Gabriela Flax left her corporate position managing 40 people to work on her career coaching businesses solo and moved from London to…
Business
Loneliness is rising. Here’s how to reconnect with old friends
When Jennifer Austin met Molly in second grade, they quickly became best friends. They giggled through classes until the teacher separated…
Business
How to cope with loneliness in your first year of university
Robert Medhurst spent most of his freshers' week looking at social media, reading posts about other students' fun nights out. "I was just…
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Loneliness can be deadly for cancer patients. This app helps foster connections
Amaya Matos was 19 years old when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. She’d just graduated high school, but instead of heading…
Business
BrewDog ad banned for implying beer beats boredom and loneliness
A poster for BrewDog has been banned by the advertising watchdog for implying that alcohol can beat boredom, loneliness or frustration.…
Business
How to deal with loneliness at work
One of the best predictors of your happiness at work is whether you have colleagues that you are close with. You don’t necessarily need to…
Style
A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
There’s real reason for caution here, starting with the idea that interactions with A.I. can be treated as genuine relationships. Oliver…
Celebrity
‘The Visitor’ Review: A Searching Lithuanian Character Study Caught Between the Peace of Solitude and the Pang of Loneliness
You can’t go home again, as Thomas Wolfe famously told us, and the drifting, dawdling protagonist of “The Visitor” knows it all too well.…
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A TikTok trend has men calling to wish their friends ‘good night.’ What does that say about male loneliness?
A new trend that’s been circulating on social media has grown men reaching out to their buddies to say “good night,” and sometimes even…