Building and Maintaining Communities | LiamHz
"Perfection is merely adequate, imperfection is disappointment" When the dishes get done and people take out the trash, people's reaction is a shrug. When the chores don't get done people get mad.
Building and Maintaining Communities | LiamHz Building and Maintaining Communities Articles Principles, Key Research Themes, and Notes for Great Communities Principles for a great community Eat together No meetings, run decision making through Slack Have a high bar for who can join No bosses, many leaders Support disengaged housemates Automate friction points (e.g. chores) Avoid dating / breakups within the house (exception for True Love) The Evaporative Cooling Effect Communities worsen as they grow because the quality of members decreases. This can be mitigated by direct exclusion, mechanism
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