If you know everyone’s business, ask what that says about the conversations you’re in.

Information travels in both directions. Being the person who knows every detail means you are in rooms where details get traded, and anyone trading them with you is trading yours somewhere else. It usually starts as closeness and ends up as a habit that makes everyone slightly less safe.

Notice what your next three conversations are actually about. If most of the material is other people, steer one back to whoever you are with: their week, what they are worried about. The friendship gets sturdier when it does not need fuel.