Most people don't join communities for belonging.
They join to solve a problem or achieve a goal.
It's only once they form relationships that they'll cite belonging as their motivation.
Lesson: to grow your community promote benefits, not belonging.
knowledge shared between friends, while relatively unknown to the rest of the world, anchors many of the strongest social bonds.
strong communities tend to feature mutual commitments and common moral obligations, or relatedly, a sense of shared fate
If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself.
The lesson is simply: speak up .
It's OK to slip into advocacy now and then, so long as you do it tastefully. If it sounds high- or heavy-handed — or anything like nagging — you're doing it wrong. Just explain why you care about a particular value. The goal... See more