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Hanging Out The Radical Power of Killing Time

Sheila Liming

"Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang." — Loneliness is an epidemic; it feels harder than ever to connect with others meaningfully. What can we do to remedy this? Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to h...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

She described the book as a manifesto that diagnoses the "quiet catastrophe" of reduced social time and argues that modern life erodes the skill of simply hanging out.

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Sheila Lyman is the author of The New Book Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls a quiet catastrophe.

— Episode: Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing...

Episode: Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our So...

She described the book as a manifesto that diagnoses the "quiet catastrophe" of reduced social time and argues that modern life erodes the skill of simply hanging out.

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Sheila Lyman is the author of The New Book Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls a quiet catastrophe.

As I was researching for the book, I stumbled upon this Reddit thread.

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