What questions should talkin’ ask itself?
For a long time now I asked myself, what value talkin’ gives to the world. What’s the social conext talkin’ is set in? Usually I write down articles and thoughts I have around talkin. Here I assembled a couple of them.
Matteo
The loninliness epidemic is taking over the world. How can people be less lonely? Or is it actually fine that we’re lonely?

- Teens have less face time with their friends – and are lonelier than ever (archived)
- https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2019/05/americas-loneliness-epidemic-hidden-systemic-risk-organizations http://archive.is/n819b
- https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-loneliness-epidemic http://archive.is/zGpyL
People less and less enjoy life
Do they? https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/freizeit-der-deutschen-menschen-verlernen-das-geniessen-16380436.html (http://archive.is/2l4pW)
People meet more and more virtually. Is that good or bad?
Do quality interactions and relationships increase if people more and more meet online?
Image taken from Michael Rosenfelds Research Note: “Disintermediating your friends” (Stanford University, 2019)

Social is eating the time and is showing a superficial way of living life. Is that good or bad, and if bad something worth thinking of?
Advice on how to grow up probably always was hard. How to foster the exchange between experienced and new?
Do we really expand the “comfort zone” at talkin’ and is it something that actually has an impact?
- If You Aren’t Prepared to Embarrass Yourself You’ll Never Win archived
- Ways To Be More Likable By Saying Very Little – attentiveness instead of comfort zone expansion? (archived)
Stress, “grinding” for business and money seem to be popular “paths to happiness”. Is it worthin thinking of an environment where other ideals are lived?
We are afraid of so many things in our world – should we train to not be afraid?
We live passive life, have troubles actively creating it.
- Tell Me What You Say Yes to, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are (archived) – we say yes to too many things
- Living Life Passively Is Your Greatest Mistake — How To “Find” Your Soul Mate (archived)
We live in a world where communication goes digital, which is probably good or bad? Is talkin’ a good environment to meet, socialize and experience interactions?
How to be curios?
There are so many helps out there for conversation starter and guidelines … did we forget how to be curios?
Is it in the end about the search for happiness?
There are so many helps out there for conversation starter and guidelines … did we forget how to be curios?