Reflections
How Connection Quietly Wears Away
Contact vs. Connection | Part 5 of 7 Nobody remembers the day a friendship ended by drift. Ask someone about a group they slowly stopped being part of, and they rarely name a fight or a betrayal. It’s more like this: the invitations got sparse. The replies got slower....
Does Digital Contact Add to Our Relationships or Replace Them?
Contact vs. Connection | Part 3 of 7 A grandmother and her grandson video call every Sunday. He lives three provinces away. On those calls she learns his teachers’ names, his current obsession, and which friend he’s fallen out with. Another family shares a group chat...
Connection Doesn’t Mean the Same Thing to Everyone
Contact vs. Connection | Part 2 of 7 Two colleagues each believe they’ve been warm to the other. Each has concluded the other is cold. The first shows warmth by opening up. She shares what’s going on in her life, asks how you’re really doing, and treats that kind of...
Contact is Not Connection
Series: 1 of 7 Picture two people. The first works on a distributed team. She sends and receives messages all day, and video calls fill her calendar. By any measure of contact, she is one of the most connected people you know. Ask her who she’d call if something went...