During COVID, our social circles have been drawn tight—often uncomfortably so. But being stuck together doesn’t have to be relationship-destroying.

Is boredom making it impossible to effectively engage with politics?

Are you worried about your relationship to your phone and social media?

Do you turn to porn merely when you're bored? Recognizing this as passive consumption may help steer you away from boredom in other ways.

What makes a person boring? And how can we avoid the tag ourselves?

Are your kids bored with school? Letting them take the lead might help eliminate their ennui.

Attention-grabbing machines, and the dark flow they engender, exploit our feelings of thinking without offering back any real meaning or mastery.