community making
what are the values I look for in a community I want to be a part of? what does the community I want to be a part of look like?
by Naomi Razic · updated 6mo ago
community making
Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.
- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Naomi Razic added 8mo ago
“Familiarity is crucially the maintaining of weak ties, or else the maintaining of strong ties in weak ways. Some things can only be made strong by binding one thousand tiny threads. So the problem isn’t that friends must hang out more, the problem is that they haven’t seen each other in forever (without hanging out). What creates strong friendship
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I want writing to form communities, create a chorus, be a living text of compulsions. - Jerry Saltz
Naomi Razic added 6mo ago
"Belonging feels like you are seen and heard. You feel alive. You’ve been invited into any given group, and you know you can be honest with the people in it. Students I’ve worked with describe it as being in a good place and being with people they’re comfortable with. They feel validated." - Susie Wise
Naomi Razic added 6mo ago
- Stop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solutions. Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one. It will make you happier.
It will make all of us happier.from Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Naomi Razic added 9mo ago
- We are in an age of noise.
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See morefrom Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough. by Evan Armstrong
Naomi Razic added 7mo ago
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