Community

Building shared spaces and scenes: hosting, dinner parties, meetups, camps, coliving, festivals, retreat organizing

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 19,468 posts.

Trusted voices in Community

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  1. visakanv — trusted by 200 posters here
  2. RichDecibels — trusted by 188 posters here
  3. TylerAlterman — trusted by 190 posters here
  4. exgenesis — trusted by 176 posters here
  5. __drewface — trusted by 171 posters here
  6. christineist — trusted by 165 posters here
  7. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 154 posters here
  8. the_wilderless — trusted by 153 posters here
  9. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 160 posters here
  10. goblinodds — trusted by 154 posters here
  11. vividvoid — trusted by 160 posters here
  12. AskYatharth — trusted by 147 posters here

Top posts in Community

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  1. Well, maybe I opened Pandora's box when I called out @michaelcurzi after vibecamp. I stand by what I said about the need to be kind and welcoming to awkward people, but it was wrong of me to insult… (vividvoid) — 54 likes
  2. one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen: any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work… (visakanv) — 48 likes
  3. guy who has never hosted a dinner party: I should start a network state (RichDecibels) — 48 likes
  4. maybe you're lonely because you're fundamentally broken or maybe it's because we spent the last 70 years dismantling social structures that took centuries to develop and we haven't replaced them… (RichDecibels) — 46 likes
  5. Vibe Camp exceeded expectations. So much love and gratitude flowed easily. I think the flavor of the event felt like a cross between a regional Burning Man, a Slate Star Codex meetup, a conference… (algekalipso) — 45 likes
  6. I drew this diagram to illustrate a lot of related insights about agency, hosting, community-building, collaborative leadership & social change come with me now, the thread is long and full of… (RichDecibels) — 44 likes
  7. i don't know how quickly this is happening but i hope on some reasonable timescale we're going to transition from helping each other explore our feelings etc. to helping each other find ways to make… (QiaochuYuan) — 43 likes
  8. if you take a bunch of those people and say “here is a space which is much more tolerant of divergent social behaviour, you are less likely to be punished for being yourself intuitively” they can… (RichDecibels) — 41 likes
  9. I WANT MY INTERNET FRIENDS CO-LOCATED NOWINTERMITTENT EVENTS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGHIF YOU’RE SO GOOD AT MANIFESTING JUST MANIFEST THIS (exgenesis) — 40 likes
  10. just talked to a lovely couple selling this retreat center 90min south of Montreal in New York 17 bedrooms, commercial kitchen, national park, $600K it looks kinda perfect and I’m wondering if one… (RichDecibels) — 40 likes
  11. People often tell me that their friend group talks about living near each other. And yet, almost none of them have successfully clustered their friend group yet. Here's how I got 22 of my friends to… (Prigoose) — 38 likes
  12. turns out all my thinkyboi tweeting for the past 6 years was just compensating for my unmet need to be in a big nice house with a blanket fort and many sweethearts https://t.co/vLpalqAM9B (RichDecibels) — 38 likes
  13. > You’re born alone and you die alone You’re born into the arms of people who love you with the intensity of a thousand suns and you die enmeshed in a lifetime’s worth of intimacy and connection… (mbateman) — 37 likes
  14. tweeting into the void → making mutuals → exchanging DMs → videocalls → multi-day meetup → multi-week coliving → permanent neighbourhoods (RichDecibels) — 37 likes
  15. there are people who go to festivals etc just to feed and care for other people there’s this cosplay lady who goes to cosplay cons just to do free repairs for other people’s costumes as long as… (visakanv) — 36 likes
  16. imo there's a similarity here re: how to make social reality less barren. host more dinner parties and meetups, introduce people to each other. ecologize. incubate healthier social norms in small… (visakanv) — 36 likes
  17. I promise you don't want personal sovereignty you want to be inextricably entangled in a mesh of mutual obligations (RichDecibels) — 35 likes
  18. My very favorite kind of vacation has become the kind where several families that have been friends for a decade+ get a house together somewhere beautiful, and then we just enjoy being together… (eshear) — 35 likes
  19. sometimes people think their bottleneck is time but it’s actually the absence of a supportive context (visakanv) — 34 likes
  20. My insanely talented friends are undervalued by modern institutions and scattered all over the world. So I dreamt of building a "campus" where friends could live & work near each other That's… (TylerAlterman) — 34 likes
  21. Just moved to Bedstuy, a mostly black neighborhood. At risk of idealizing a culture that isn’t my own, I have never lived in a place that feels more open to interactionIn most parts of town it feels… (TylerAlterman) — 34 likes
  22. On Finding Your People: I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city Disclaimer: This will require you acting… (TylerAlterman) — 34 likes
  23. i organized a picnic today. invited the maybe 30 ppl i met in the past 6 weeks most ppl didn't show up but other ppl brought friends and in the end in the end it was lovely and everyone had a great… (mechanical_monk) — 33 likes
  24. ingroup map!!! .@xsphi and i put together a way for ingroup to semi-anonymously display our general locations for anyone who wants to meet up with each other~ FORM: https://t.co/k0tBcfcwlY MAP:… (goblinodds) — 32 likes
  25. increasingly trippy instructions for a meditation on the self... Seeing Like a Superorganism On the surface, @micro_solid is a community-building framework, an engineer’s attempt to invent a cure… (RichDecibels) — 32 likes
  26. tweaking to make this more likelyEuro-SummerWhat if you come stay in Porto for 1 month in the summer, I find us a co-working place, and we seed a little academy?reply to express interest? 👀… (exgenesis) — 32 likes
  27. in the interest of scenius-building I now issue an open challenge to all my mutuals to QT this tweet with "<name>, explain <your thing> right fckn now, in one breath, standing on one… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  28. a scene is not a community. oftentimes this distinction doesn't really matter but sometimes it really does https://t.co/YT13kUAiZm (visakanv) — 31 likes
  29. my thesis is that we are really not supposed to be alone at night. if daytime was ancestrally for finding food and tending to physical needs, nighttime should’ve been for gathering around the fire,… (QiaochuYuan) — 31 likes
  30. idea: ecosystem work retreatI invite a group of brilliant, kind, agentic twitter people who I spot as working on sufficiently distinct but complementary projects to spend focused writing / coding… (exgenesis) — 31 likes
  31. one thing I find weird about the norm of meeting up with friends only to hang out / have fun is - “wait, so am I supposed to do all the *work* of living life entirely on my own”? I so want more… (relic_radiation) — 30 likes
  32. Alright fuck it, seals broken, let's do this. Post 3 things or people you appreciated the hell out of at vibecamp. Tag the people, if you get tagged you post (bashu_thanks) — 30 likes
  33. if you're a field medic and you're surrounded by people who are in various degrees of incapacitation, one of the best choices you can make, is to help another field medic this is very obvious to… (visakanv) — 30 likes
  34. I don’t know if this study will replicate…but I’ve long believed humans have a basic need for synchronization. It’s available through team sports, dancing (especially if everyone is dancing the same… (eshear) — 30 likes
  35. so. in the context of a convention like jesscamp, where we had this conversation first, it's not really about whether a group is open to "people" joining, but whether they're open to me joining… (mechanical_monk) — 30 likes
  36. when you notice “hey we don’t have good elders”, congratulations you just entered the accelerated track to become a good elder https://t.co/IhGFa50kz8 (RichDecibels) — 30 likes
  37. where are the elders? i very often meet people in their 70s & 80s and listen to their stories, concerns, and opinions though i’m a charitable listener, nobody seems more childish than these… (puheenix) — 30 likes
  38. vibecamp, i'm coming! eyyy (facepoasting so you can find me at vc and say hi) https://t.co/1mugEh4X2r (mechanical_monk) — 29 likes
  39. feel like mama bear reading the postvibecamp posts. if you left feeling lonelier than you arrived, sweetheart: please don't conclude there's something wrong with you, the context was off that's all.… (RichDecibels) — 29 likes
  40. If you have no idea what “lemur” means on Twitter or what a “vibe camp” is, let me know—I need to follow all of you so you can show me the way out (the_wilderless) — 29 likes
  41. I’m excited to announce a new community experiment: "Fractal University". An in-person school community dedicated to completing (and teaching!) the best online courses in the world and publishing… (__drewface) — 29 likes
  42. vibecamp but there are more and more lemurs https://t.co/BgJPyo4uQs (uberstuber) — 29 likes
  43. i fucking love it when i can see thoughts circulating between people on here like yes hahaha we're one big giant brain let's fucking go (QiaochuYuan) — 29 likes
  44. today I’m thinking about “How To Be a Vibe Mechanic” - a practical guide to making awesome groups I want to name what does an excellent host/facilitator/group process designer is paying attention to… (RichDecibels) — 29 likes
  45. I recently cooked for 17+ people, felt like a big accomplishment / milestone in my cooking journey https://t.co/nCi1TUIA8b https://t.co/GvVHwvGKPL (christineist) — 29 likes
  46. one of the cool things about being known as a helpful person is you constantly have people showing up asking for favours and also another thing is they generally suck at helping you in return and… (RichDecibels) — 29 likes
  47. it’s a small % of people who post anything at all in that group it’s a small % who put in any real thought or effort at all in that group it’s a small % who have a long game in mind and stick around… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  48. intended vibes: friendly, intentional, thoughtful, playful, empathetic, authentic, creative, optimistic, curious, kind 💪🦚 (strangestloop) — 28 likes
  49. I'm surrounded by friendly earnest weird kind people on twitter if you want more of that sorta thing in your feeds, I made this list of people for you to follow https://t.co/KnCCyK3oKI (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  50. Here's the first version of a tpot directory! 276 links to things! Thanks to everyone for sharing their stuff! https://t.co/t3GhvQEOlJ (strangestloop) — 28 likes

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