Self-Sabotage vs. Toxicity
How to tell whether a relationship is harming you or whether you’re getting in your own way, using what’s known about social safety and the brain.
Connection
Every page in the manual filed under this topic.
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Building Relationships
The basic skills for healthy relationships, the main models of attachment and love, and why some relationships last.
Interaction Optimisation
How much friendship we actually need, the brain chemistry of connection, and why small daily contact matters as much as close friends.
The Social Rabbit Hole
A deeper look at social health: the loneliness research, the neuroscience of social pain, Dunbar’s numbers and the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
Status, Power & Defence
Why status matters so much to humans, how hierarchies form, and what rank does to your hormones and brain.
Social Resources
Recommended reading on connection, loneliness and relationships across anthropology, neuroscience and psychology.
Interaction Entwined
Why humans are social animals, how digital life clashes with that, and how the chase for status gets in the way of real connection.