This chart stopped me.
People are googling "how to meet people" and "where to make friends" more than ever. Not dating. Friends. Basic human contact.
Something in me tightened when I saw it.
Because I recognized it — not as a market trend, but as a feeling I've met in myself and in people around me.
We've never been more connected. And somehow, more alone.
And here's what I notice in my own reaction to all the AI acceleration around us: the faster everything becomes, the more I crave what's slow. A real conversation. Someone who actually listens before answering. Presence.
I don't think AI will reduce this need.
I think it will amplify it. When every answer is instant, the moments when a human is truly with you become the rare thing.
Maybe that's why I've ended up building what I build.
Twenty-two years around housing taught me one thing I can't unlearn: a home is not square meters.
It's where a person's sense of safety lives. And the moment of selling or buying one is not a transaction — it's a moment when someone needs another human to be genuinely on their side.
That's the work I want to do. Not faster. Closer.
I'm curious — where do you feel this in your own life or work? Where has speed replaced presence, and what did it cost?