Tony Ennis's Blog Posts about Adult Friendship

"Squads are both a product of—and a response to—contemporary social atomization"
"Whether bound together for survival or for lols, the squads formed by today's crisis will be resilient. Distance is no longer a barrier with the closeness of network space—soon vital culture will be predominantly enacted by fictive kin. Group collaboration is now the strong default, putting squads at the center of social, cultural, and economic life."
"Millennials are healing from decades of irony poisoning, rediscovering what it's like to have generative, exploratory relationships with one another."
"The ideal squad count is no more than 12. How can you really be present with more than a dozen people"
"A greater network may surround the squad, making it appear big and fuzzy from the outside. But for the core crew, an invisible circle binds and protects a space of group identity."
"One necessary condition of the squad is this sense of persistence: co-presence and continuous availability to one another."
"After enough fire in the group DM, some squads begin to externalize their social products"
"Podcasting is obviously a squad technology. Rapid publishing turns memes into whitepapers, quickly flooding the marketplace of ideas with locally-grown squad humor."
"Once together the squad's potential for creative production is immeasurable"
"The group is the basic user class for the tools we need today as a society, yet few pieces of software allow the squad as a whole to produce cooperatively and generate wealth together."
"Contributions to the squad are positive sum. And in return for their contribution, members have access to an expanded set of opportunities, claims on future economic flows and guarantees backed by the group. By risking together, a scrappy group can gain access to multiplicative yields"
"Squads will be as important as companies in the years to come. And as the micro-structure of our social and economic fabric changes, strong vibes and sustainability will become the new metric of success"