HeyJaredThe Oneliness Project
If we remembered that loneliness once meant oneliness, how might we begin to reimagine how we love, work, and share a world? Essays and conversations on loneliness as a structural condition, and what Oneliness proposes instead.
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I Spent a Week in Silence with 40 Strangers. It Became the Most Intimate Thing I’ve Felt. (opens the original)
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Over the past week, I went silent alongside 40 people I didn’t even know the names of, at the first of a series of meditation retreats, hosted by , Jonathan Garner, and Dr. of the wisdom + AI network. A friend had sent me a message, saying: “You should check this out.” A few of us received sponsored spots, and I was one of the lucky recipients. How? Don’t question your luck; honor it by receiving. So I made my way to the Midlands of England,
Is the Internet Making Us Feel Less? 💔 🧐 (opens the original)
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On my recent flight back from Crete, I rewatched You’ve Got Mail, starring a young Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meeting over the internet‘s first clumsy hours, exchanging emails occasionally, then sacredly, without knowing each other’s real identity. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-2Md!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd03db01-ccea-4172-a2d1-2
A New Chapter of Oneliness (opens the original)
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AI;DR: Here’s my new website and I poured my heart into it; take a look pleaseeee (oh and let me know if you find a typo ;) We forget sometimes that the story of capitalism is only a few hundred years old.Therein lies the origin of the 9-to-5 working hours, followed by our obsession with productivity and growth, and conformity to modern family values built around buildings and cities that became dense, grey, and functional. Our windows to the world have stretched to a minute-by-minute tracking o
What the Loneliness Influencers Got Right (and Missed) (opens the original)
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Heard of loneliness influencers? It’s a somewhat recent trend of a persona that romanticizes the life of “living alone, single, no kids, with no friends,” and choosing it this way. They take us through their weekends and after-work routines, emphasizing the narrative that being alone can bring happiness, too. There are dramafreediaries or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zaz
What Was Your Last Moment of Awe? (opens the original)
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Two days of flânerie in Paris left me with moments full of awe. I didn’t realize how much I’d been starved for them. Now that it’s peak European summer, I’ve been committed to slowing down and stripping away any form of unnecessary consumption (including the many happenings and temptations around me). I’d felt so full of stuff and empty of anything essential that it took me a few weeks to find the ground again. Through moments of utter boredom and nothingness, between nagging existential questio
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