Community Tennis

The alternative is to find and focus on the projects that take insight, guts and a tolerance for risk. The projects that involve significant human connection and effort.

When new technology shows up, some people ask, “how can this make my job easier?”

But what happens if we ask, “how can I use this to do something really hard?”

We send a message to the market when we’re in such a hurry that we don’t put in the care and focus needed to do great work.

Getting more boxes checked simply leads to having more boxes checked. If we’re here to make a difference, we often get there with better, not with more.

In his final prescription for America, Dr. Vivek Murthy delivers a profound truth: well-being is relational, not just personal. Backed by decades of research, Murthy outlines what he calls the Triad of Fulfillment—relationships, purpose, and service. Connection, he argues, is as vital to our health and longevity as diet, exercise, and sle

Remember the TV show Cheers, where “everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came"?

The fictional bar represented something vital that sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined a "third place"—somewhere between home and work where people gather, connect, and find respite from their daily responsibilities.

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 cases in this book also show that the strategic agency of mod-
ular network structures cannot guarantee that public or hybrid or-
ganizations can successfully chaperone the activities of their policy
subsystems. Such subsystems can exhibit moribund tendencies that un-
dermine the adaptive capacities of innovation milieus. They can calcify
sclerotic

No one can set out a list of precise and universal rules applicable to every person under all circumstances. Indeed, the temptation to wish for such is likely a symptom of the general malaise. We must all think for ourselves, and in conversation with each other, so that we can arrive at sound judgments under our particular circumstances and given o

Plenty has been written about how social media has made people more connected than ever, but also lonelier than ever. While there’s been many benefits of creating digital communities, people have come to the realization that physical communities are essential.

2025 may be the year of the get-together.