Sublime

Growing a community isn’t about management. It’s about developing leaders. With their help, your community will affect more people and sustain itself longer than you could have managed on your own.

If existing members are helping you grow the community, you’ll reach more people, and in a more authentic way, than you ever could alone.

“A community is a living organism. It’s either declining or improving; there’s no steady-state in a community.”

For any community to flourish, it’s essential that members have a space where they can speak directly to each other, without having to depend on a founder or leader to play intermediary.

If you want to spark your own community, you’ll need to first pinpoint your people. Find your kindling—those early allies who care about what you care about enough to manifest your idea for a community into an actual gathering of human beings. Though there may not be many of them, the first people you involve are consequential. They will set the to

A sign of a vibrant community is that new members join because they want to.

You don’t have to toil alone. Shift your mindset from stoking the fire to passing the torch. Your community depends on it.

Stop thinking about your community as just an audience. Instead, treat these people as collaborators.