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Communities either die young, or live long enough to become institutions. The difference between the ones that endure, and the ones that don’t, is collective memory – how well does the community remember its identity, as generations of people move through it over time? How quickly do its people forget the values and traditions from its first days?

Communities either die young, or live long enough to become institutions. The difference between the ones that endure, and the ones that don't, is collective memory - how well does the community remember its identity, as generations of people move through it over time? How quickly do its people forget the values and traditions from its first days? Who we are, together Great communities are built on shared identity . That shared identity might start as situational, like "new parents," or deliberate, like "startup founders at UC Berkeley," or even immutable, like "first-generation Korean-America

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