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
Coffee for two
The smallest gathering you can host is one other person — and it counts completely.
- 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
Movie nights
A four-word invitation that almost nobody refuses — and a quiet cure for the loneliness you didn't know you had.
- 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
Craft circles at home
The easiest gathering you can host is the one where nobody has to impress anybody — including you.
- 6
Cooking together instead of cooking for
The meal isn't the point. The standing side by side is.
- 7
Errands, together
The fastest way to see someone is to stop saving them for the good hours.
- 8
The work session
The easiest invitation you'll ever make asks for almost nothing — and changes more than you'd think.
- 9
The Sunday phone call
How to stop scheduling a friendship and start keeping one.
- 10
Gatherings under an hour
The invitation you keep meaning to send gets a lot easier when it has an end time.

