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Your explanation on how communities evolve is spec-taco-ular! I imagine you can stop that evolution if you want, right? For example, you can cap membership, like Jay Clouse has done. Or, you could have exclusive sub-communities within your bigger community, right? Like shoving wedges into your larger community evolutionary ecosystem. But I guess those are luxury strategies. For someone like me who can't recruit enough community members to fill a couch, better find myself a better wedge.

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Spot on. Capping membership, designing intimate experiences (like pods) or offering subgroups can all help keep the community experience at stage one or two.

Getting those first members is super hard! You’ll figure it out

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You so caught the taco vibes Chris!😄

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Interesting to know that there's also a trillema on community. Was thinking it's only a blockchain issue😄

These are great perspective you've laid out here David and I look forward to testing them out

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Thanks obee!

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Really like the example - thank you for sharing that.

Curious how you think about a community that wants to continue growing in size still keep 'Connection' as a high value?

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Ah yes. “Scaling intimacy” as I like to call it. I have an article in the works on this topic.

The key is to create smaller experiences within the larger community.

That can take many forms:

- pods that meet monthly

- introduction tools

- buddy systems

- local meetups

- subgroups

- channels

- clubs

When your community starts it’s like a library, or coffee shop, or sports league. When it grows, it becomes more like the neighborhood, or city. It’s an ecosystem. But it can still be made up of libraries, coffee shops, and sports leagues.

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Love it, excited to read it!

If you'd like input / the problem I am thinking about - happy to share more!

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Yes please!

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