building communities

one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen: any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work that's directed at each other talking about the creation of scenes, basically

Visakan Veerasamy x.com

Getting found is about being findable.

Tina Mai • Kernel | Chaos Theory

the law of attraction

Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.

Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work

networks are heat-seeking missiles for value. Provide the value, and the network is there.

Substack • See your Career as a Product

Dialectic conversation is about an exchange of views and ideas which resolves itself in consensus. The goal is to align the participants under a mutually agreed resolution they can all support from that point forwards.

Essentially, there is one right answer.

Dialogic conversation, on the other hand, isn’t about reaching a consensus. It’s about an... See more

john v willshire • The Dialogic Brand

We need the weeping, the 3 am whisperings, the downpours or the dancing until you’ve sweat through your clothes and your skin and the stitches holding it all together.

We need to be fed.

So feed us.

Instructions for hunger

We often keep our connections close to our chests, guarding them like precious resources, believing that by holding onto them, we’re preserving their value. But here’s the irony: by doing that, we’re actually diminishing their value. Networks don’t thrive in isolation; they come alive when the number of connections—the nodes within them—increases.

Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons

The speed of our forward motion is directly related to the velocity of the people around us