my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that you’re operating in. your product, sure, but why did you make the product? because you cared about the problem, right? show us!!
And there was something else to look at what urban planner William White calls triangulation. You don't have to directly engage with other people who are here. You can both be looking at the fire. You're having a nice time. You're warm, you're feeling good. And over the course of sitting for a while, there's opportunity to strike up a conversation... See more
in every meeting, conversation, or encounter, you have the opportunity to make someone feel BIG or small. choose BIG. the best way to make people like you is to make people like themselves.
We cultivate and strengthen community through experiences in music, dance, art, and food that are rooted in our Appalachian traditions. Our products are these experiences: Meaningful and, hopefully, transformational experiences that make you feel invited into a community. Once we are all there in community, we can talk about ways to strengthen it... See more
with tiktok temporarily closed, maybe it’s time to rethink how we use the internet. imagine if instagram shut down at 9 pm, like a grocery store, or X closed at 11 pm (open late, but not 24/7).
we might all feel a little less pressure—to read, to post, to exist online all the time. maybe we’d sleep better, feel calmer,... See more
The work of building a great community goes much farther beyond simply moderating a Slack group. A great community needs regular events and meetups. They need ways for leaders to step up and invent their own traditions, create their own events, and run their own sub-groups. Leading a community requires making it easy for members to become... See more