“A great paradox of our hyper-connected digital age is that we seem to be drifting apart,” wrote Dhruv Khullar, a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, in an editorial to the New York Times. We have many acquaintances but not many friends. “Increasingly, however, research confirms our deepest intuition: Human connection lies at the heart of human well-being.”1 Unfortunately, we have grown accustomed to distance in our relationships. When engaged in conversations, we sometimes answer