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Christ, in some ways, this thread makes me want to just like, teleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers. I think we'd have a great time. No vi vs emacs, mind.
I'd love to have an HN irl meetup sometime.
#NERRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSS
or u can just Rent A Friend : http://www.afar.com/magazine/the-incredibly-true-story-of-re... -- proven to work in japan. perhaps it could be repurposed for the US market. (although i dont think it would play out very well )
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Like, people could pick 'flavour' of guides. E.g.:
[ x ] This Person A likes to talk and share his knowledge about bikes.
[ x ] This PersonB likes to talk about Kant/Heigel and some other western philosophy.
[ x ] This PersonC can do card tricks and has hilarious stories about his time overseas staying at 'X'. (ok now this is getting farfetched here, but hey people like doing stuff!) He also can wear a cape if you send a special request and bring a small jade plant.
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MIght not need to even be monetized or anything, I think it would just be fun to connect with other random groups of people and put on a 'facade' of the 'guide', which in turn might create real friendships. (When we meet new people we usually are putting on a neutral facade of some sort and really only show our deeper layers once the intimate connections have had time to be laid down).
Also , I think this meetup format is less akward because there is a preset goal in mind: E.g: THis person is going to be talking/showing/interacting around this theme/subject/activity. So this is similar to when people take courses in college (with preset goal of learning about course subject) and can form friendships more easily with people beside them/in discussion group (as the relationship has the prebuilt support already there to help it build around).
This is kinda fun to rant on so maybe i will continue later but yes.... Rent A Friend style idea seems to have potential it could be sooo much more.
could work on ideas of: Homogeneity of English Language. Would be fun to rent-a-friend but with goal of learning their native language. (E.G. hmm i am bored on a sunday afternoon, I know , I will practice my language with a rent-a-friend japanese speaker because I love the phonetics. (maybe the pairing will also speak japanese as 2nd language but that makes for another commonality base to talk around)
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Christ, in some ways, this thread makes me want to just like, teleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers. I think we'd have a great time. No vi vs emacs, mind.
It's definitely doable. Anyone in SF wants to meet in the golden gate park today around 3pm? Edit: Since this got a few upvotes but not many replies, feel free to come at 37°46'08.4"N 122°29'08.8"W ( https://goo.gl/maps/Vvyctgz4CAQ2 ). Will have a Linkedin tshirt/backpack.
Success breeds spatial flexibility.
Proximity breeds close relationships.
WRT the decline with age, I've always felt like a lot of it is 'ego based', for lack of better terms. I've found that as time goes on, people are far more concerned with doing things by the book, projecting an image, etc. rather than just 'being', enjoying life in the moment, doing things just because. I've certainly been guilty of this to some extent because it seems impossible to avoid. Personal anecdote: At age 16…
Christ, in some ways, this thread makes me want to just like, teleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers. I think we'd have a great time. No vi vs emacs, mind.
Just wondering: can beginning a startup with new people be considered a good way to find new friends?
(I've added the following in an edit because I realize that my answer isn't very useful without additional information.)
My best friends actually didn't start the company with me, they happened to be some of the very first key people hired by the company--I didn't know them before that. In our startup, there were ups and downs and definitely challenges to overcome; in that kind of environment one really gets to know people's character and I was lucky enough to make friends with two really great guys. Additionally, I got to know many remarkable people this way.
Years after the company was sold and all of us had gone our own ways professionally, I was on a second date with the woman that I am now married to. We were headed to one of her friend's house for a party. While walking up to the front door I asked for the names of the people I would be meeting (to make it easier to remember their names). To my surprise and my wife's her friends were the wives of the CFO and the COO from the company before we sold it. Today we enjoy seeing them socially and even vacation with them from time to time. So it's not just my very best friends that came from the startup its actually many friends.
Some people from the company I'd like to see more, but understandably, there are also people that I usually avoid.
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Thank you for very much for your feedback. I really appreciate it. Yes, Krewe does drop you into a group as soon as you sign up and you don't get to see who's in it. Keep in mind that we never give ANYONE your location or email address. You also have the choice to leave the group right away and join a new group and you have the ability to vote people out of a group. But I strongly believe the platform simply won't wo…
I'm struggling to figure out OP's context (not sure why they're not just saying it) but one thing I can come up with is restraining orders. It doesn't seem too outrageous to me that the use case of 'have been in a neighbourhood for a while and already have enemies' is just outside of the scope of the program, though. It has far more utility for people who have just moved to a new town and have no contacts at all.
I disagree with your limited use case. IME there are many stages of life where you might need to refresh or replenish your friend group. Aside from moving to a new place, people complain about the difficulty of making friends after college, when their friends get married or have kids, if they're stuck in a job without peers, after a divorce, etc etc etc.
WRT the decline with age, I've always felt like a lot of it is 'ego based', for lack of better terms. I've found that as time goes on, people are far more concerned with doing things by the book, projecting an image, etc. rather than just 'being', enjoying life in the moment, doing things just because. I've certainly been guilty of this to some extent because it seems impossible to avoid. Personal anecdote: At age 16…
Christ, in some ways, this thread makes me want to just like, teleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers. I think we'd have a great time. No vi vs emacs, mind.
They get pretty fun beyond a critical mass but that usually takes logistics, sponsors, and so on, and you're basically organizing a conference. I think Imgur had sponsors for the last big one and fed everybody the whole time. There's a spectrum. Small and intimate can be good, big and organized and logistical can be good. Sets the tone.
Get one or two of the heavyweight names here to talk, toss out some Goat Hill, and you'd draw a crowd.
someone once said something along: any relationship will thrive to a degree to which value is derived by both sides This helped me understand a few things. We all have childhood friends that once made sense but now if we met these people we wouldn't become friends. That's the exception to above rule, and i'm sure there are a few others, but generally that is a good way to understand why a friendship is working or cea…
I think a lot of people are stuck on a treadmill of success and would have a better life if they stopped to smell the roses, or talk to someone that maybe doesn't necessarily have an obvious way of adding value to their life.
I've certainly found myself in the difficult position of having moved to a place where I know nobody. I read "How to win friends and influence people", hoping I could learn how to make better friends with it. It's easy to go to meetups and make shallow connections with small talk, but getting people to talk to me is like pulling teeth, a lot of single sentence reponses and no attempt to further the conversation.
What city are you in?
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