Third space connection
by Natasha Wiscombe · updated 5d ago
Third space connection
If you haven’t got a thing, you need an excuse. Most social occasions are just chats around an excuse. If you ask people to come over to your house and talk, they’ll think you’re strange. If you say it’s for a dinner party or poker or Grand Theft Auto, they’re perfectly happy.
from Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share by Russell Davies
Natasha Wiscombe added 5d ago
- Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more
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I want work that is meaningful and rewarding but that also allows me to pick up my kids from school or edit this book from a beach house. I don’t want to be shackled to a desk in some tower from nine to five, Monday to Friday. But I also don’t want a life where I sit at this desk in my house, in the same sweatpants, day in and day out, logging in a
... See morefrom The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax
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- Encountering for the first time communities in the real world founded on ideas, I began to realize that I had always felt what my friend David Perell calls “intellectual loneliness.” It’s a feeling that almost no one in your social circles shares the same passion for ideas as you. I realized I had always felt that there was no one I could share my ... See more
from Not Found by Tiago Forte
Natasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
- Community means a lot of things to a lot of people. Whether it’s your local running group, a book club, your gym squad, family, or membership in an exclusive club, belonging to something is meaningful. Our identities, while obviously unique to us, are so shaped by the influence and power of community that it remains a biologically human need to hav... See more
from Build it and they will come - or will they? by Connection Engine
Natasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
- gathering in person is a profoundly inefficient affair but it is a profoundly human affair. we won't be able to measure what it means to be here. we traded off the efficiency of our screens for humanity. we came for a vibe.
from Special Edition of Temp Check: Recorded Live @websummit Nov 2, 2021 by Geoff Lewis
Natasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
- We all know that feeling of belonging to something — comfort, happiness, peace. It feels like magic being in your place with your people and being able to play your role in the glue that holds that space together. Many communities capture these ephemeral, magical moments of the human condition and turn them into lasting, life-changing relationships... See more
from Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain by Medium
Natasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
- Nearly all of my most fulfilling and exciting experiences, those that have made me feel part of a community or moment, have happened in person. I think the feeling of being surrounded by likeminded people is unparalleled.
from Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation Anxiety by MØRNING
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