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Mal James
Writer at Silicon Canals

Mal James

Writer

Mal James is a writer at Silicon Canals covering psychology, productivity, and the patterns that determine whether ambitious work compounds or burns out. His coverage draws from a teaching background, broad reading across behavioural science and business, and a working interest in what separates short-term effort from durable performance. He writes primarily for the Mind pillar with cross-coverage on the people inside the technology economy.

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Nobody talks about why so many men quietly end up with no close friends, and it isn’t that they stopped caring, it’s often that the friendships were built around shared activities, and once the team, the job, or the season ended, nobody knew how to just call

According to the Survey Center on American Life's 2021 American Perspectives Survey, the share of American men reporting no close friends rose from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021. That's a fivefold jump in a single generation.