Tag: social-isolation
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Podcast Episode: Can my Friends be fictional?
At the end of my last conversation with Dr. Harry Owen Taylor, he said something that I couldn’t quite shake. He mentioned that technology is going to change the way we experience isolation and loneliness forever. That’s one of those statements that sounds obvious on the surface—and then gets more uncomfortable the longer you sit…
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Podcast Episode: Social Isolation Is as Dangerous as Smoking?
Huge, huge thank you to Dr. Harry Taylor at University of Toronto for this awesome interview. There are certain claims that immediately trip my internal “citation needed”, (or as I call it, BS)alarm. This was one of them: Social isolation is as dangerous to your health as smoking cigarettes. I first ran into that line…
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