About

Hi friends, I’m Diego Cortez. I'm an aspiring human connection designer.

I started this project from the uncomfortable feeling that the world doesn’t treat relationships with the importance they deserve. We know how to build cities more than we know how to build communities. We push ourselves hard to become the best scientists and engineers but not as hard to become better friends. We prepare relentlessly for our careers, but we improvise our closest relationships. We often leave connection to chance.

I don’t think that’s the way we should be living.

Our relationships can be our biggest source of happiness or our deepest source of pain. The challenge is that they are also one of the trickiest areas to navigate. So we need to redirect all the talent, intellect, and effort that we put into less important things to create richer social, romantic and family lives.

Here, I am redirecting all my skills and knowledge to understand the principles, dynamics and patterns of human connection. I’m learning out loud, looking for better answers to build a more connected life. You will find:

• Reflections on connection design, and social well-being
• Practical tools and ideas for improving your relationships
• A weird blend of systems thinking and vulnerability coming from me
• Some philosophical questioning of reality

I believe that human connection is not a side quest but the main mission in the beautiful game of life. This is a life adventure for me and this blog is the beginning.