Edward Shepard
@edwardshepard
Edward Shepard
In order to make sure that your community’s purpose is grounded in your people’s needs, and that it expresses what you can accomplish together, consider: 1. What do my people need more of? 2. What’s the change we desire?
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
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.
“When Koda visited New York
Between 2003 and 2024, the amount of time that Americans spent attending or hosting a social event declined by 50 percent. Almost every age group cut their party time in half in the last two decades. For young people, the decline was even worse. Last year, Americans aged 15-to-24 spent 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did... See more
The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
Nearly every challenge of building a community can be met by asking yourself, “How do I achieve this by working with my people, not doing it for them?”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
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... See more
A Week in the Japanese Alps with the Kumonodaira Trail Club
People hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
If you do the work to get your people talking, members of your community will be able to swap stories, support each other, and pursue collective goals. The richer the 1:1 connections between members, the stronger the community.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a sense of belonging comes third after physiological and safety needs.