Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2023-06-11
Books mentioned on 149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult?
How do friendships change as we get older? Should you join a bowling league?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone by Robert D.
Discussed“Bob Putnam who wrote bowling alone and whose work I think you know of wait let me ask you do you know who I'm talking about putting them so Bob Putnam wrote bowling alone about how as you know I guess Mike that Americans are spending time alone that they used to spend with friends”
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The Great Good Place
The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg is a sociological study that examines the vital importance of informal public gathering spaces—such as coffee shops, bookstores, and hair salons—that sit outside the home and the workplace.
Discussed“I knew you were going to either invoke Bob Putnam or Ray Oldenburg who wrote The Great good place and talked about the loss of third places so home being the first place work being the second place and we used to have all of these third places to which we would go like bowling leagues or churches or pubs”
