Yes. But not in the way you think.
None. Problems don’t need us to solve them. People need each other.
If you need a CV, scroll LinkedIn. If you want to know who I am, look at what I’m trying to understand.
Isn’t that just self-help in a trench coat? Maybe. But this is not about “becoming better” or fixing yourself like a broken appliance. We’re not here to chase goals that make people miserable when they don’t reach them. The point is different: someone has to test what happens when we actually do something together instead of only talking about loneliness and connection as abstract concepts.
No. If you want incense and group hugs, there are other rooms for that. This is not therapy-theatre. This is action-oriented: 12 concrete steps, 12 months, to see what grows when men commit to friendship as deliberately as they commit to training, work, or money.
That story has failed a lot of people. We live in a time where everyone knows no man is an island, yet most act like they don’t need anyone. Waiting passively for friendship to “just happen” is a slow suicide. This program is not natural, it’s intentional. That’s the experiment.
Because routine is what makes anything last. Training, eating, sleep, it’s the same. Friendship is no different. Without rhythm, it collapses into random encounters and good intentions. The Catalyst believes routine is the missing ingredient, not self-improvement sermons.
Because slow is the only speed that works. You can’t microwave trust. You can’t binge-watch belonging. Friendship is built like muscle: gradually, through repeated effort that at first feels absurd.
Yes. That’s the point. It’s absurd in the same way running a marathon once was absurd. Or the idea of Finland being the happiest country eight years in a row is absurd. We test the absurd because ordinary strategies are failing.
Then we’ve proven something, too: that we need new experiments. The failure would still be a gift, because it shows us where not to go. And maybe along the way, a few friends will still appear, that’s (already) a win.
Then we’ll have shown that friendship can be trained and created deliberately. Not through self-help slogans, but through shared acts of care, rhythm, and persistence. And that’s worth everything.