Small Grouping = Friendship + Structured Focus + Intentional Culture Creation + A High Degree Of Realness. It's my sneaking suspicion that despite all our shiny new communications technology there remains a deep streak of loneliness hidden inside almost all of us. 

I see these as fairly universal i.e. that almost any group must be in one of these modes. Either the group is just chatting (i.e. a WhatsApp group, or book club), or the groups’ members have agreed to work together on some specific purpose (i.e. a open source software project, or startup), or they’ve developed an idea to a suitable state in order t... See more