🌱A roundup of social media posts about community

The Neighborhood’s quarterly updates series. Read through the entire journey and how my work and thinking evolved over 3 years!

Mar 24 📢 Demo of my auto-announcer tool for unconferences

Jan 24 5️⃣ 5 cultural notes to hit to ensure a great unconference

Nov 23 ⚙️ Some ways I use my Airtable CRM to organize conferences

Jun 23 ⚙️ A tool for helping me source for large events

All updates, in chronological order

2024

⭐️Apr 24 🧬 #12 Launching City Campus

⭐️Feb 24 🛠️ #11: the Village Retreat, Treehouse, and Cohousing

Jan 24 🎭 Renaissance Weekend is an inspiration

Jan 24 🔮 2023 was about coordinating people, 2024 is about cohousing

2023

⭐️Dec 23 🧬 Announcing our next unconference: HammingBio Symposium

⭐️Jul 23 🤖 #10: The Unconference to Community Pipeline

⭐️Jul 23 🛠 The unconference toolbox

⭐️Mar 23 💘 #9: The Neighborhood’s First Unconference

⭐️Mar 23 💘 Califlorence Climate: reflections and takeaways

Mar 23 🦷 The Grassroots Gauge: the key community health metric

2022

⭐️Nov 22 🤯 #8: The Summer of Spaces

Nov 22 👻 Rituals should come from existing traditions

Nov 22 😅 Sustaining the slow hunch is a matter of cultivation

⭐️Nov 22 🗺 Let’s build Flock to increase serendipity with your best friends

⭐️Nov 22 🤗 Retreats that turn strangers into squads do these 5 things

Nov 22 👵🏼 Squads → long-term friends

Nov 22 🗽 Neighborhood NYC has chosen a spot!

⭐️Nov 22 🧭 You’re invited to Explorers Club

Nov 22 🍵 A Research Sprint, powered by the Stable Marriage algorithm

Oct 22 👨‍🎤 A theoretically optimal social graph shape for great research

Oct 22 ⚙️ We’re building a makerspace in the Neighborhood

Oct 22 👷‍♂️ New construction in SF is 30% higher than last decade’s average

Oct 22 🙃 The discovery of meaningful work happens in 3 ways

Sep 22 🗺 People who love SF live here

Sep 22 🎉 Huge YIMBY victories today

Aug 22 🗺 Underrated areas of SF

⭐️Jun 22 🦞 Rust governance: “escalating consensus, experts consulted early”

Jun 22 🪐 Beware the unseemly desire for the Inner Ring

May 22 🎰 Ennjoyable, unplanned interactions convert acquaintances to friends

⭐️May 22 🎉 #7: Launching The Commons

Apr 22 🌩 Norms, events, and infrastructure that might contribute to scenius

Apr 22 🔬 An event I’d like to see: Lightning Talk Mashup: Biotech & AI

Apr 22 🥞 Our simple insight: build where people already want to live

🌟 Apr 22 🏛 Vision, Capital, and Governance

Apr 22 💸 Lessons from taking four sabbaticals

🌟 Apr 22 🤓 #6: Becoming Hyper-Local Real Estate Guy

Feb 22 🐚 Which of our friends are already living in our 3 candidate locations?

🌟 Feb 22 🥇 Choosing the location of the Neighborhood

Feb 22 🏫 Campuses could replace the university and the accelerator

⭐️Jan 22 🕵️‍♂️ How can we discover homes before they hit the market?

⭐️Jan 22 🤷‍♂️ The Neighborhood is a campus, and shouldn’t be too opinionated

⭐️Jan 22 🏦 The BYO Landlord idea

⭐️Jan 22 💬 Strategy for building the Neighborhood

2021

⭐️Dec 21 🚙 The top 5 locations for the Neighborhood

⭐️Dec 21 🇫🇷 93 Cumberland as a hangout space for the Neighborhood

⭐️Dec 21 😍 The dimensions of scenius, and how we might reproduce that culture

• Dec 21 👨‍🔬 Cultural diversity sometimes means you have to be exclusive

  Dec 21 👨‍🔬 Against elitism: build for people that would thrive in your culture

  Dec 21 🤯 DAOs are astonishing

  Nov 21 💸 If you had $10K-$1M to spend on scenius, how would you do it?

  Nov 21 ❌ If you try to start a remote village, there's strong evidence you'll fail

  Oct 21 👨‍🍳 Web of Questions

  Oct 21 🌉 What neighborhood in SF has the best weather?

  Oct 21 🗞 Does anyone have a personal CRM workflow they don’t hate?

  Oct 21 🌩️ Not knowing what you want

  Sep 21 🤓 "Friendly ambitious nerd" describes many of my favorite people

  Aug 21 🔥 A roundup of the NYC coliving scene

  Jul 21 ⛓️ How to ask a resident to leave

  Jul 21 👨‍🍳 Hiring a private chef for a dinner

  Jul 21 🐣 Giving a group a name has an odd power to it

  Jun 21 🤲 New coliving residents must learn Ownership Mentality

  Jul 21 🦉 What's a good definition of wisdom?

  Jul 21 🛕 A Community Hierarchy of Needs

  Jul 21 🚧 We’ll see lots of distressed real estate this decade

• ⭐️Jul 21 🌆 Surprising differences between SF and NYC

  Jul 21 👂 I'm more inspired to be a first follower than a leader

  Jul 21 🦜 Hints at post-scarcity cultures by looking at financially independent tribes

  Jun 21 💒 I really want a community of practice for wisdom

• ⭐️Jun 21 ⛪ Research sprint: secular churches in the Bay

  Jun 21 ☠️ Urban coliving houses are alarmingly short-lived

  Jun 21 😤 Suffertember was a great Archive tradition

• ⭐️Jun 21 🏘 The story of Archive Cohousing: Q2 '19 - Q2 '21

  Jun 21 🕴 Down to satisfice on cohousing? How to do it for $60k down per resident

  Jun 21 🏛 The Archive's homepage

  Jun 21 🛍 SB 6 would completely transform the California housing landscape

  Jun 21 🏢 Evidence for SF reclaiming its glory: office vacancy rates, universities

  Jun 21 💾 SF is uploading and will remain a cultural powerhouse for a long, long time

  Jun 21 👶 The leading indicator of SF's demise: when young people don't move here

  Jun 21 🛠 A list of innovative community-based or -adjacent organizations

  Jun 21 🧑🏻‍🦲 Even Marc Andreesen is talking about coliving

⭐️Jun 21 😤 I quit my job...!

⭐️May 21 🏅 The MacArchive Genius Grant & pre-idea accelerator

⭐️May 21 🥂 Scaling relationship building

• ⭐️Mar 21 🛰 Dimensions of meaning from community

  Jan 21 🚶‍♀️ Walkable cities result in 3x the friends and 2x the acquaintances

  Jan 21 🎙 Max Efremov interviewed me about the why and how of cohousing

  2020

⭐️Dec 20 🔥 Elliott Jin interviewed me about cohousing: the 18min summary

• ⭐️Sep 20 🍳 Breakouts: how to divide labor fairly in coliving houses

  Jul 20 🎓 Build a walkable city in a shuttered mall or repurposed college campus

• 🌟 Jun 20 🗺 A mindmap of my community beliefs

  Jun 20 🌇 The biggest cohousing I know of: Bondebjerget, Denmark

  Jun 20 🔥 I’m a big admirer of Oneida’s trial by fire: “mutual criticism”

  Jun 20 🥄 Out of all the cults in history, my favorite is the Oneida community

  Jun 20 🤯 Alfred Loomis’ epic science castle

• ⭐️May 20 💰 Most common sources of cohousing capital, ordered by expense

  May 20 ⏲ The prime window for starting cohousing is in your mid 30s

  Apr 20 🏐 I've dreamt of living in a cul-de-sac with my best friends since I was a kid

  Feb 20 🚲 Day in the life of an Archive Distributed Neighborhood

  Feb 20 🐠 Choose to make your best friendships the most convenient ones

  2019

• 🌟 Dec 19 🥧 Flock: an IOT sensor network for unplanned encounters in coliving

  Dec 19 💘 Notes on the Art of Loving

  Oct 19 🏘 Inspiring cohousing communities

  Sep 19 🚚 Amazon now sells tiny homes for $30k

  Aug 19 🏘 Highlights: Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities

  Jun 19 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents of young kids love cities, are forced to move for schools

  2018

• ⭐️Sep 18 😫 Participation at the Archive, and how to support disengaged housemates

  Sep 18 😆 I tried scripting Tinder to recruit housemates

  Sep 18 ❓ Questions to ask other communities

  Oct 18 ❌ Megyn Kelly canceled immediately after talking to the Archive

⭐️Oct 18 🤯 Megyn Kelly interviews us about coliving on live, national TV

⭐️Aug 18 👩🏼‍🎤 Interview with Andrea Martinez from the Embassy house in SF

Resources

🏡 A list of coliving spaces in the Bay Area with availability

Other post collections

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