module 7

Small and Low Effort

Small and low effort: coffee for two, the standing breakfast, reading in the same room, gatherings under an hour.

10 articles

  1. 1

    Coffee for two

    The smallest gathering you can host is one other person — and it counts completely.

  2. 2

    The standing breakfast

    a kind of invitation you only send once — because after that, it stops being a plan and starts being a thing that happens.

  3. 3

    Movie nights

    A four-word invitation that almost nobody refuses — and a quiet cure for the loneliness you didn't know you had.

  4. 4

    Reading in the same room

    Two people, a lamp, and whatever you're both in the middle of reading — one of the easiest things you will ever host.

  5. 5

    Craft circles at home

    The easiest gathering you can host is the one where nobody has to impress anybody — including you.

  6. 6

    Cooking together instead of cooking for

    The meal isn't the point. The standing side by side is.

  7. 7

    Errands, together

    The fastest way to see someone is to stop saving them for the good hours.

  8. 8

    The work session

    The easiest invitation you'll ever make asks for almost nothing — and changes more than you'd think.

  9. 9

    The Sunday phone call

    How to stop scheduling a friendship and start keeping one.

  10. 10

    Gatherings under an hour

    The invitation you keep meaning to send gets a lot easier when it has an end time.