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Every city changes you. San Francisco tells you to be strong, LA tells you to be famous, Boston tells you to be smart and New York tells you to be richer.
In the words of Paul Graham, “Every city whispers something.” So when you choose to live in a city, you’re also choosing what kind of whispers you want to hear. Even if they are transcendent, the whispers of cities are so dominant that…
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Modern loneliness masks itself as hyper connectivity. And so people have easily 1000 virtual friends, but no one they can ask to feed their cat. That loneliness, which is really a depletion of the social capital, is extremely powerful. […]