Edward Shepard
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Edward Shepard
College kids schedule literally everything on Google Calendar. Across American campuses, it’s commonplace for students to schedule out their days and weeks in color-coded blocks on Google Calendar. No event is too small and virtually nothing is out of bounds. At some schools, students have even used it to get a date.
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During my time volunteering, I learned from other volunteers like Ryosuke, a natural historian who explained the area’s geological formation and why erosion was an issue in Kumonodaira. The next day, Daigo, an architect, taught everyone the proper way to roll hemp netting and how this technique can help with vegetation restoration. Ryu, a trail mai... See more
A Week in the Japanese Alps with the Kumonodaira Trail Club
The third goal was arguably the most important: to build an informed community. Each meal, we’d shuffle our seating around so that we could all get to know each other. And we spent an entire day devoted to lectures and discussion about all the issues facing national parks in Japan, instead of maintenance work. This meant that, even when the week wa... See more
A Week in the Japanese Alps with the Kumonodaira Trail Club
“Community,” the OED notes, is rooted in the Middle French communité. The word may have come to suggest a “body of people who live in the same place,” but, initially, it meant something much simpler and much more powerful: “joint ownership.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/07/what-does-community-mean/532518/
“It used to be that people were born as part of a community, and had to find their place as individuals. Now people are born as individuals, and have to find their community.” – Bill Bishop, the author of The Big Sort:Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
What Does 'Community' Mean?, the Atlantic
"Activities related to smartphones and digital media are linked to less happiness, and those not involving technology are linked to more happiness." — Jean M. Twenge, World Happiness Report
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This community of community-builders has the vibe of the tech community a decade ago - excited, open, and willing to help each other out in the service of building something transformative. They’re getting help from the macro environment, as well.
Packy McCormick • Part 2: The Rise of IRL Member Communities — Packy McCormick
You need to differentiate yourself. And my suspicion is that differentiation is most easily found first in who you know, second, in the physical world, and third, in the quality and placement of what you produce. People’s appetite for screen time is shrinking and the opportunities to produce new things are growing.
yan castaldo • I'm Bullish on Gatekeeping and IRL Parties
Brands are turning back to IRL experiences. ABM thinks we’re in the early stages of a return to real-world moments. Not mass events, but the kinds of physical experiences that actually stick with people. That could be a smart creator dinner, a useful activation at a festival, or just something that connects to a moment in people’s lives.
“You can de... See more
“You can de... See more