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Mar 2020
36m 26s

Low Optionality and Adult Friendships

Ali & Taimur Abdaal
About this episode
This week we talk about a few topics that Taimur's been noticing more and more — low social optionality (applied to adult friendships), the plight of kids in society, and treating your personal life like a business. We also touch on the ideology of social media lynch mobs/"haters". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv ... Show More
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