This was also major revelation for me: 'I'm in an industry where the term "friend" has no meaning at all.'
When I was explaining to my Irish boyfriend that my friend was coming to visit Dublin, he asked, 'Is everyone your friend if you like them?' And I replied, 'Yes...'
Then I realized this wasn't helpful for him to understand the distinctions—who had been a core friend for years versus a work acquaintance versus someone I'd met once and thought was cool. Our different cultural understandings of friendship created confusion, and I had to redefine 'friend' in my mind.
I wonder if some of the confusion started with the introduction of Facebook twenty years ago when all 'friendship' required was a click of a button and suddenly they were in your friends list.
'Internet friend' (IF) is a possible label. It feels more like an instant pen pal. In some cases, it is a really cool group discussion. You are on to something because some people just have a different mindset. For example, with the click of a button: Congrats Molly!
This was also major revelation for me: 'I'm in an industry where the term "friend" has no meaning at all.'
When I was explaining to my Irish boyfriend that my friend was coming to visit Dublin, he asked, 'Is everyone your friend if you like them?' And I replied, 'Yes...'
Then I realized this wasn't helpful for him to understand the distinctions—who had been a core friend for years versus a work acquaintance versus someone I'd met once and thought was cool. Our different cultural understandings of friendship created confusion, and I had to redefine 'friend' in my mind.
I wonder if some of the confusion started with the introduction of Facebook twenty years ago when all 'friendship' required was a click of a button and suddenly they were in your friends list.
'Internet friend' (IF) is a possible label. It feels more like an instant pen pal. In some cases, it is a really cool group discussion. You are on to something because some people just have a different mindset. For example, with the click of a button: Congrats Molly!
Yes! I have really good capital F friends that have come from the internet. Good point.
congrats Molly!
Love alley oop, love that CS lewis sermon
Hello Molly,
I hope this communique finds you in a moment of stillness.
Have huge respect for your work, specially the unique reflections.
We’ve just opened the first door of something we’ve been quietly handcrafting for years—
A work not meant for markets, but for reflection and memory.
Not designed to perform, but to endure.
It’s called The Silent Treasury.
A place where judgment is kept like firewood: dry, sacred, and meant for long winters.
Where trust, patience, and self-stewardship are treated as capital—more rare, perhaps, than liquidity itself.
This first piece speaks to a quiet truth we’ve long sat with:
Why many modern PE, VC, Hedge, Alt funds, SPAC, and rollups fracture before they truly root.
And what it means to build something meant to be left, not merely exited.
It’s not short. Or viral. But it’s built to last.
And if it speaks to something you’ve always known but rarely seen expressed,
then perhaps this work belongs in your world.
The publication link is enclosed, should you wish to experience it.
https://helloin.substack.com/p/built-to-be-left?r=5i8pez
Warmly,
The Silent Treasury
A vault where wisdom echoes in stillness, and eternity breathes.