Comment by stroebs

This resonated hugely with me, with the grand addition that I moved to a different country a week before COVID lockdown. I’ve since reached a lot of pretty big life milestones (house, career, spouse, kid (soon)) and realised my life was still pretty empty because I’m not the introvert I once thought I was.

What I’m personally missing is the social capital. “Just invite people to stuff” doesn’t work, because my prior in-person social network is fragmented over 3 continents and many more countries and time zones. Minting new social capital is difficult - joining social events requires an invite to a social event to meet other people to start the process.