Seriously, though, make more music with friends/strangers. Maybe record the music and publish it. Invite friends to your place (or somewhere/anywhere) and let them watch/listen while you and maybe your band mates play on.

Gre

In short, relax! Get out to play more. Meet your friends. Work, and all the important things you already do won’t run away :)

If you want to improve the whole social thing you will have to practice, practice, practice. Fortunately, you’re surrounded by millions of avid socialisers. Close the laptop, open the front door, step out – see you soon!

There is something to be invented and/or made that makes things like kiva.org or myc4.com radically better. There’s a good chance that this involves some kind of smart technology and/or (social) algorithms. You probably need a very analytical/geekish understanding of economics and society to figure it all out. When you get that idea you probably need to be a very convincing and persistent lobbyist to make things actually happen.

*I* have no idea what this radical improvement is, but you seem like the kind of guy that could figure it out :-)

Otherwise — volunteer. Not for high scale “techies v government” stuff, but instead so something like teach a basic computing class to disadvantaged kids. It’s important to do things like this, and it’s another social element, and you’d be surprised the things that kids teach you!

@earhart – why are you signing off as M? it’s like you’re Judy Dench in the bond movies … which might not be too far from real life really, you are a trained killer who travels a lot after all.

@froodie Teaching Guitar once a week now :-) partially as Gaeilge too. The photo stays.

@mags Political parties require a lot of compromises I’m not happy with, but changing the system itself does interest me from time to time. hinking about it :-)

Join a church.

Teach music?

Also, don’t change the picture. The endearingly dorky look works for you. :)