Gathering Structures
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How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
Table of Contents Table of Contents Assumed Audience People who currently put on events and gather people together, or people who want to start doing so. I have been inadvertenly gathering people and putting on community events for about fifteen years. I say “inadvertently” because I’ve never sat down and thought “I want to be a community organiser.” What happens is I have a craving for certain kinds of experiences. I think “wouldn’t it be great if I knew people also designing interfaces for language models”, or “I wish I could explore web animation with people also trying to learn it”, or “Je
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