Community Tennis

You can’t effectively engage with the competing priorities and come up with creative ideas if you keep jumping ahead to the constraints. Pretend someone else will be accountable for this, and allow yourself to imagine solutions that aren’t tied to the current resources/limitations/knowledge you have today.

Another way Park Padel builds its community is through its referral programme. Park Padel offers a complimentary booking to anyone who brings a guest who has yet to play at the club, and also gifts the guest a complimentary booking.

Perhaps the most instrumental initiative to its growth has been its squad memberships. Park Padel offers half the regu

Park Padel offers a complimentary booking to anyone who brings a guest who has yet to play at the club.

“It's hard work. It takes a lot of time. But I think if you find that you're willing to really put in that work and build from the ground up, then it starts to build by itself and starts to grow.”

Your job is not to “get the word out.” Nor are you likely to be able to get others to know what you know, see what you see.

Instead, the best we can do is create great work that fits into a system where voluntary choices, made by diverse individuals, leads to the change we seek to make.

It starts by acknowledging that different people have different

Most of the pitch and the demo is all about how terrific our plans are, and how well our gadget works.

But if we hope for resilience, perhaps it makes sense to show off how gracefully the system breaks.

Because it will break. Because plans won’t work out. Because we’ll be surprised.

And then what happens?

Nothing is perfect…

But everything can get better.

There’s never enough time…

But there’s time enough to make a difference.

Someone will always be opposed to the change we seek to make.

And there’s always someone who wants to help.

The process of making something that people want is the process of learning, through experiment and error, to be the kind of person who can generate needs, wants, and jobs in other people.

Making something that people want is an alternate way of seeing the world, and of responding to it.

Needs arise in context—they are not context-free facts.