Social Products
A working map of products, resources, and formats that help people find each other, understand each other, and build stronger social habits.
Tier 2 - Individual Social Management
Tools that help people discover, plan, and maintain healthier social rhythms.
- Eventure - Event discovery platform bringing events from across your city into one calendar.
- Jet Lag: The Game Hide and Seek Transit Game - A real-world game format built around exploration, coordination, and shared play.
- Questions For Humans - Conversation cards that make deeper, more intentional conversations easier to start.
- Focus Friend, by Hank Green - A friendly focus app that supports attention, routines, and small daily commitments.
Tier 3 - Social Schema & Instructions
Resources that explain how relationships form, how social systems behave, and what to practice.
Videos
- YouTube Playlist - A general collection of videos I come across related to relational infrastructure.
- Man of the Year Podcast - Conversations about friendship, masculinity, and maintaining adult relationships.
- HealthyGamerGG - Mental health education with practical frameworks for communication and self-awareness.
- Pauly Walnuts - Content about building meaningful connections and social skills.
Programs & Communities
- Let Grow - Guidance and programs that help kids build independence and community trust.
- Anxious Generation - Research and recommendations about childhood, phones, play, and social development.
- Imgur Community Resources - Community guidelines and resources for building healthier online spaces.
- Not Just a Hobby - A growing resource offering realistic, approachable introductions to hobbies from real hobbyists.
- Marmalade Trust - An award-winning charity dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness and empowering people to make connections.
- Friendship Recession - An in-depth, growing site by Nick Gray sharing research, stories, and advice on the modern friendship crisis.
Online Articles
- Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence - An SSIR article on relational intelligence as a needed civic and organizational skill.
- The Anti-Social Century - An Atlantic piece on how rising time spent alone is reshaping our personalities, politics, and communities.
- Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the 'Boy Problem' of the 1900s - A New York Times essay on how civic institutions and mentorship once helped struggling boys, and why that response is needed again today.
Books
- Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
- Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
- Outrage Machine: How Tech Is Amplifying Discontent, Undermining Democracy, and Pushing Us Towards Chaos
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
- Talk to Strangers: The Yes Theory Story
- Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
- The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Learn more about Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 social products from our Three Tiers of Social Products blog post.