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The Courage to Be Ordinary
Alison (my wife) lives a life that some would call “ordinary”. She’s a middle school teacher. She loves routines. She orders the same thing at…
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Return on Energy
Return on Investment (ROI) is a fundamental rule of business. You need more money back than you put in. Violate this rule and your business will die…
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Flavors of Loneliness
When we talk about “solving loneliness” it’s tempting to look at it as a monolith, where everyone’s loneliness is the same. But loneliness comes in all…
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Conversational Meditation
When in conversation, I will often find myself lost in thought. Instead of listening, I’m thinking about what I will say next, about something else…
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How to Downshift
A path for high achievers to find a new way of being
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The Annual Life Review
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A Letter from the Abyss
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Why Close Friendships Aren't Always Enough
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How to Engineer Serendipity
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A Letter from the Abyss
Hey, hello, and tbh… what’s happening? It’s been a minute. Actually, it’s been about five months. How have you been? Seriously, I’d love to know. Me…
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Why Close Friendships Aren't Always Enough
How to maximize your social health by diversifying your interactions
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The Six Communal Advantages
Does this problem require a social solution?
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The Bravery of Human Connection
Why connecting with people will always come with risk
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How to Scale a Slack Community to 10,000 Members
A friend of mine recently launched a very successful membership community, hosted on Slack. In just one year they signed up hundreds of members who are…
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How to Engineer Serendipity
Five levers to make your community feel like ✨magic✨
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How to Find your Community Wedge
A framework for differentiating your community in a noisy market
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Find the Turpentine
How to build community by focusing on practice, not purpose
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The Case Against Community Purism
Why we need to ditch the myth of the community utopia
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