Kirsten and Blake look in to how The Blossom Society are thinking about group chats and group chat fatigue.

This episode audits group chat fatigue as a design problem, not a personal failure. Using an internal strategy stack from The Blossom Society (TBS) — including a consulting psychologist’s report — we unpack “social attentional demand”, context reconstruction, and why newcomers get crushed by belonging pressure and the “status treadmill”. Then we turn it practical: a coping playbook built around Pace, Purpose, Position, and Sense-making (including the 30-message catch-up limit). Finally, we zoom out to platform solutions: front-gate announcements, default-muted timeboxed chats, slow chats, weekly digests, and rewarding conduct over volume — all framed ...