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What is consistent across all of these categories and vintages is that they offer place, programming, and a real sense of community and belonging to a generation of members who largely grew up on the internet. We are tribal, and these clubs allow us to be with our tribes.
Packy McCormick • Part 2: The Rise of IRL Member Communities — Packy McCormick
“The pleasure I derive from Sunday service depends not just on my own inputs but also on the inputs of others: how many others attend, how warmly they greet me, how well they sing, how enthusiastically they read and pray.” Club goods are strengthened by active participation in group activities and gatherings, and by adherence to group rules and nor
... See moreAnna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Many of our customers feel a sense of ownership.
Ray Oldenburg • Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
This may be the primary mythic role that small towns play in our politics: the stage that is just the right size.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
the best recipe for friendship would be structural, ensuring that everyone lives in well-designed, safe, spontaneity-enhancing neighborhoods with walkscores of 90 or above.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
This is the very possibility that small towns are supposed to offer: a theater in which to contemplate more fully the impact of your single life, your choices.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
making conversation
to be fed into dinner clubs, radar events, and more community things i love
Agalia Tan • 4 cards