🦄 Startups & VC 2d ago · Daniel Moran

Psychology suggests people who have dozens of acquaintances but no close friends aren’t necessarily shallow or emotionally unavailable — they may have learned how to connect with almost anyone without ever letting anyone get close enough to truly know them

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Psychology suggests people who have dozens of acquaintances but no close friends aren’t necessarily shallow or emotionally unavailable — they may have learned how to connect with almost anyone without ever letting anyone get close enough to truly know them
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A woman I know counted the guests at her own birthday dinner and got to forty-one. Three weeks later her father was admitted to hospital and she sat in the corridor scrolling her contacts for twenty minutes without finding a single name she could stand to ring.
She is not cold. Just one of the warmest people I know, the sort who remembers your sister’s name and what you were worried about in March. Forty-one people would drop everything for her, and she could not ask any of them.
That gap

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