Adult friendships survive because someone maintains them. Usually that someone has to be you.
At some point in adulthood, friendship stops happening automatically.
At school and university, friendships are a side effect of proximity. You see the same people every day without trying. Then life scatters everyone: different cities, different jobs, children, schedules that never align. The friendships that survive are the ones somebody actively maintains, and most of us never noticed when that responsibility became ours.
Money is very good at one job: buying the freedom to say no. It needs clear instructions to do it.
On the difference between visible faith and performed faith, and what remains when no one is watching.
The feeling starts it. Small, repeated, ordinary choices are what make it last.
Competition gets the blame. Cash timing, founder bandwidth and drift do most of the damage.