Are We Really Having Fun at Bars or Just Escaping Reality?

Taking a hard look at how we socialize helps us spend time the way we truly want.

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
6 min readFeb 24, 2022

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The coronavirus pandemic gave us a pause to ask ourselves if we really should go back to the old way of doing things.

For example, many people ditched their traffic-snarled commutes for work-from-home…

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Nir Eyal
Forge
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