Ep. 96 - Community vs. Networking

Thriving The Future Podcast by Thriving The Future

Episode notes

After two years and almost 100 episodes, we discuss how our views of community have changed.

In Ep. 1 of the podcast Perpend and I discussed what is necessary for successful community:

  • Worldview

  • Skin in the game/Proof of Work

  • Proximity

  • Common purpose

  • Common culture

Are you doing community or just networking?

Networking can be transactional and extracting; Community is more holistic and is more about people. It is sharing life and culture.

When your community workshops become so mundane that you don't take pictures anymore, It is something that you do. Something that shares life and culture. That's where you see people stay or fall away.

After things went back to "normal" we saw less engagement and people don't want to get together and ... 

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networking