The Key to True Friendship

Maxi Gorynski
8 min readJul 5, 2022

There’s something incomparably more difficult about sitting down to write something about a topic like friendship (though I’ve done it before), compared to sitting down to write about a topic like quantum computing, exotic matter, the history of language or artificial intelligence.

In those cases, some vague patina of respectable knowledge, if not expertise, can be built up in a few hours of well-routed research. To write authoritatively about friendship, one can only rely on the collected wealth of one’s insight and experience. That’s a considerably broader knowledge base, considerably less well-organised, and without a search function as potent as Google to help you find specific facts within it.

But following the launch of the company that I co-founded, which aims to make finding friends and creating new friendships as easy as finding a bottle of edible glitter or genuine human skulls online, I thought I ought to really interrogate this concept and see what, if anything, I could find to say about it that was worthwhile [1].

The Best Friendships Are Active

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Maxi Gorynski

Technologist, writer, contrapuntalist, lion tamer and piano tuner