Our book

We wrote the book on friendship.

Published in March 2026. Pete and Johan’s field guide to why friendship is infrastructure, why loneliness is the most under-funded epidemic of our time and why the platforms we have today cannot fix what they broke.

Available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle on Amazon. Our book is the philosophical foundation under everything we build at Perdata.ai, and the reason we keep insisting that AI exists to facilitate human connection, not replace it.

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What it covers

Why friendship — and why now.

Not a self-help book. A clear-eyed look at the structural failure of the platforms that promised connection and what to build instead.

Part one

The diagnosis.

How we got to a billion lonely people. What the WHO, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the data are actually telling us.

Part two

The autopsy of social media.

Why the platforms cannot be fixed. The structural reasons engagement and friendship are pulling in opposite directions.

Part three

The blueprint.

What a friendship-first ecosystem looks like. The principles, the products and the call to build it.

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