Community
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Community
When you have a densely connected network like that, not only are the friendships more rewarding, but everyone else also becomes more important to each other for mutual support, like Metcalfe’s Law. A densely layered quilt is much stronger than a seam sewn by a single string.
billmei.net • Friendships Form via Shared Context, Not Shared Activities
Audience: consumes, collates, collects
Community: contributes, cooperates, connects
There’s a big difference.
Milly’s building: generalist.worldtwitter.comwhat if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.com
High accomplishment and hard work evoke many reactions, but very few of them are the ones that we want. For all that we want it to be, competence is not warmth. The emotions you get for being competent— faith, gratitude, admiration — are important, but they aren’t enough to fill the void when what you lack in life is warmth, love, and communion.
James Horton • You Can Seek Love Now, Not Later
Community is the currency of the new internet and memberships is how you’ll get paid.
GREG ISENBERG • Tweet
communities dying, memberships thriving is a thought worth considering.
What is community?
handbook.community-weaving.org
The Breakfast — Meet new people over breakfast
thebreakfast.app