The thinking behind it.
Six documents for anyone who wants the detail the rest of the site leaves out. They are plain, sourced and dated, and they say when a figure is still being checked.
- PaperWhy connection disintegrates as a community growsPeople grow in a line. Possible connections grow with the square. The arithmetic behind the feeling every community manager knows.
- GuideHow introductions workThe life of an introduction, from proposal to two people meeting: consent, cadence, and when a human steps in.
- PaperDraftWhat a community team costsWhat a community team costs to hire: the fully loaded cost of community roles in several cities, with sources.
- EssayIRL: the new economic gravityThe smarter our machines become, the more precious our time with other people becomes.
- NoteThe rise of communityMeetup groups, coworking spaces, run clubs, accelerators and associations, counted: the organisations that run communities have multiplied for twenty years and are still climbing.
- GuideQuestions community managers askWill people find it creepy, does it depend on WhatsApp, is it just a wrapper around a chat model: the questions we get most, answered plainly.
