building communities
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand 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 Veerasamyx.comOur online environments only appear infinite. The deepest, most nuanced knowledge still lives beyond any device. Everything we see through search, social media, or AI is limited to what has already been indexed, posted or trained. For example, Google may index hundreds of billions of web pages, yet that still accounts for <5% of the internet.... See more
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
the spoken word, community circles become rich wells of knowledge
The speed of our forward motion is directly related to the velocity of the people around us
networks are heat-seeking missiles for value. Provide the value, and the network is there.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
4. Conversation allows us to think together.
Philosophy and literature encourage us to question everything and ask, in particular, the big “untimely questions.” If we enter them not with the aim to convert the other but to possibly be converted ourselves, conversations can unlock our best collective thinking and serve as the source code for... See more
Philosophy and literature encourage us to question everything and ask, in particular, the big “untimely questions.” If we enter them not with the aim to convert the other but to possibly be converted ourselves, conversations can unlock our best collective thinking and serve as the source code for... See more