Notes on personality,
friendship & connection.

What gets published here

The blog carries writing that does not belong in a guide. A guide is meant to be complete and to stay accurate for years, so it is revised rather than replaced. A blog post is shorter and more provisional. Four kinds of thing turn up here:

• Research notes — a study on friendship, loneliness or communication, summarised in plain language with the limits stated.
• Experiments — something one of us tried for a fortnight, including the version that did not work.
• Reader questions — a question that arrived often enough to be worth answering in public.
• Contributed pieces — writers working on the same problems from a different angle.

How it relates to the guides

Nothing here replaces the library. If you arrived looking for a method — how to make friends as an adult, how to set a boundary, what to say first — the guides are written to be followed step by step, and the browser tools turn several of them into something you can finish in a few minutes. When a blog post covers ground a guide already owns, it links there rather than repeating it.

How often it updates

Irregularly, and on purpose. Posts appear when there is something worth adding rather than on a schedule that would force filler. If you would rather be told than check, the note at the foot of this page goes out occasionally with one idea and one question.

Editorial standard

Contributed posts are held to the same rules as everything else on Like You: Claims about behaviour are attributed, advice stays practical rather than clinical, and nothing published here is a substitute for professional support. The full standard, including how corrections are handled, is on the about page.