--- visibility: public type: media title: >- SOLVED with Mark Manson — "How to Make Friends as an Adult, Solved" (Ep 8, 2025-11-01) source: ingest-solved-friendship-2026-06-19 created: '2026-06-19T00:00:00.000Z' ingested_via: 'mcp:put_page' ingested_at: '2026-06-19T12:27:12.531Z' source_kind: 'mcp:put_page' tags:
Posture: the age-friendship-shape curve. Childhood: play-based (pleasure-tier only).
Posture: three trade-offs — (1) time (the opportunity cost of friendship vs work / TV / scrolling), (2) marriage and kids (which change the friendship equation by orders of magnitude), (3) status / power (the fishbach problem, but in general). ** The trade-off discipline is…
Posture: technology didn't cause the friendship recession, but it accelerated it. The plane- conversation anecdote (4:11:11): "every other plane ride I'd have, you'd have at least a 15 or 20 minute conversation with somebody, and I generally wasn't the one who started it.
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