My best posts
The Neighborhood’s quarterly updates series. Read through the entire journey and how my work and thinking evolved over 3 years!
Sep 24 ✅ Season 1 of the Neighborhood is complete! Season 2 will begin with a RE fund.
Apr 24 #12 Launching City Campus. Doubling down on the success of The Commons.
Feb 24 #11: the Village Retreat, Treehouse, and Cohousing. Gathering families.
Jul 23 #10: The Unconference to Community Pipeline. Unconf #2 iterates on the format.
Mar 23 #9: The Neighborhood’s First Unconference. “Scenius” can come from events?
Nov 22 🤯 #8: The Summer of Spaces. Other organizations start planting here, too.
May 22 #7: Launching The Commons. Helping start a third space in Hayes Valley.
Apr 22 #6: Becoming Hyper-Local Real Estate Guy. Folks are starting to move!
Feb 22 🧐 #5: Derisking the Neighborhood and choosing a location. Researching locations.
Nov 21 #4: A glimmer of product-market fit. A neighborhood might be the right format…
Sep 21 #3: Writing about a Web of Questions. What questions could I explore for years?
Aug 21 #2: NYC coliving would look very different than SF. Visiting and learning from NYC.
Jul 21 #1: A new understanding of community. Starting my exploration.
Selected writing about community. My favorite posts, essays, and tweets about community that are representative of my thinking at the time:
Mar 24 📢 Demo of my auto-announcer tool for unconferences
Jan 24 5️⃣ 5 cultural notes to hit to ensure a great unconference
Dec 23 🧬 Announcing our next unconference: HammingBio Symposium
Nov 23 ⚙️ Some ways I use my Airtable CRM to organize conferences
Jul 23 🛠 The unconference toolbox
Jun 23 ⚙️ A tool for helping me source for large events
Apr 23 Choosing a career path when you’re uncertain
Mar 23 Califlorence Climate: reflections and takeaways
Nov 22 🗺 Let’s build Flock to increase serendipity with your best friends
Nov 22 🤗 Retreats that turn strangers into squads do these 5 things
Nov 22 🧭 You’re invited to Explorers Club
Feb 22 🥇 Choosing the location of the Neighborhood
Dec 21 😍 The dimensions of scenius, and how we might reproduce that culture
Jul 21 🌆 Surprising differences between SF and NYC
Jun 21 😤 I quit my job...!
Mar 21 👵🏼 Different kinds of meaning gained from community
Dec 20 🔥 Elliott Jin interviewed me about cohousing: the 18min summary
Sep 20 🍳 Breakouts: how to divide labor fairly in coliving houses
Jun 20 🗺 A mindmap of my community beliefs
Sep 18 Participation at the Archive, and how to support disengaged housemates
Oct 18 🤯 Megyn Kelly interviews us about coliving on live, national TV
Aug 18 Interview with Andrea Martinez from the Embassy house in SF
All updates, in chronological order
2024
⭐️ Apr 24 #12 Launching City Campus
⭐️ Feb 24 #11: the Village Retreat, Treehouse, and Cohousing
Jan 24 🎭 Renaissance Weekend is an inspiration
Jan 24 🔮 2023 was about coordinating people, 2024 is about cohousing
2023
⭐️ Dec 23 🧬 Announcing our next unconference: HammingBio Symposium
⭐️ Jul 23 #10: The Unconference to Community Pipeline
⭐️ Jul 23 🛠 The unconference toolbox
⭐️ Mar 23 #9: The Neighborhood’s First Unconference
⭐️ Mar 23 Califlorence Climate: reflections and takeaways
Mar 23 🦷 The Grassroots Gauge: the key community health metric
2022
⭐️ Nov 22 🤯 #8: The Summer of Spaces
Nov 22 👻 Rituals should come from existing traditions
Nov 22 😅 Sustaining the slow hunch is a matter of cultivation
⭐️ Nov 22 🗺 Let’s build Flock to increase serendipity with your best friends
⭐️ Nov 22 🤗 Retreats that turn strangers into squads do these 5 things
Nov 22 👵🏼 Squads → long-term friends
Nov 22 🗽 Neighborhood NYC has chosen a spot!
⭐️ Nov 22 🧭 You’re invited to Explorers Club
Nov 22 🍵 A Research Sprint, powered by the Stable Marriage algorithm
Oct 22 👨🎤 A theoretically optimal social graph shape for great research
Oct 22 ⚙️ We’re building a makerspace in the Neighborhood
Oct 22 👷♂️ New construction in SF is 30% higher than last decade’s average
Oct 22 🙃 The discovery of meaningful work happens in 3 ways
Sep 22 🗺 People who love SF live here
Sep 22 🎉 Huge YIMBY victories today
Aug 22 🗺 Underrated areas of SF
⭐️ Jun 22 🦞 Rust governance: “escalating consensus, experts consulted early”
Jun 22 🪐 Beware the unseemly desire for the Inner Ring
May 22 🎰 Ennjoyable, unplanned interactions convert acquaintances to friends
⭐️ May 22 #7: Launching The Commons
Apr 22 🌩 Norms, events, and infrastructure that might contribute to scenius
Apr 22 An event I’d like to see: Lightning Talk Mashup: Biotech & AI
Apr 22 🥞 Our simple insight: build where people already want to live
🌟 Apr 22 🏛 Vision, Capital, and Governance
Apr 22 💸 Lessons from taking four sabbaticals
🌟 Apr 22 #6: Becoming Hyper-Local Real Estate Guy
Feb 22 🐚 Which of our friends are already living in our 3 candidate locations?
🌟 Feb 22 🥇 Choosing the location of the Neighborhood
Feb 22 🏫 Campuses could replace the university and the accelerator
⭐️ Jan 22 🕵️♂️ How can we discover homes before they hit the market?
⭐️ Jan 22 🤷♂️ The Neighborhood is a campus, and shouldn’t be too opinionated
⭐️ Jan 22 🏦 The BYO Landlord idea
⭐️ Jan 22 💬 Strategy for building the Neighborhood
2021
⭐️ Dec 21 🚙 The top 5 locations for the Neighborhood
⭐️ Dec 21 🇫🇷 93 Cumberland as a hangout space for the Neighborhood
⭐️ Dec 21 😍 The dimensions of scenius, and how we might reproduce that culture
Dec 21 👨🔬 Cultural diversity sometimes means you have to be exclusive
Dec 21 👨🔬 Against elitism: build for people that would thrive in your culture
Dec 21 🤯 DAOs are astonishing
Nov 21 💸 If you had $10K-$1M to spend on scenius, how would you do it?
Nov 21 ❌ If you try to start a remote village, there's strong evidence you'll fail
Oct 21 Web of Questions
Oct 21 What neighborhood in SF has the best weather?
Oct 21 🗞 Does anyone have a personal CRM workflow they don’t hate?
Oct 21Not knowing what you want
Sep 21 🤓 "Friendly ambitious nerd" describes many of my favorite people
Aug 21 🔥 A roundup of the NYC coliving scene
Jul 21 How to ask a resident to leave
Jul 21 👨🍳 Hiring a private chef for a dinner
Jul 21 🐣 Giving a group a name has an odd power to it
Jun 21 New coliving residents must learn Ownership Mentality
Jul 21 What's a good definition of wisdom?
Jul 21 🛕 A Community Hierarchy of Needs
Jul 21 🚧 We’ll see lots of distressed real estate this decade
⭐️ Jul 21 🌆 Surprising differences between SF and NYC
⭐️ Jun 21 The story of Archive Cohousing: Q2 '19 - Q2 '21
Jun 21🕴 Down to satisfice on cohousing? How to do it for $60k down per resident
Jun 21 🏛 The Archive's homepage
Jun 21 🛍 SB 6 would completely transform the California housing landscape
Jun 21 🏢 Evidence for SF reclaiming its glory: office vacancy rates, universities
Jun 21 💾 SF is uploading and will remain a cultural powerhouse for a long, long time
Jun 21 👶 The leading indicator of SF's demise: when young people don't move here
Jun 21 🛠 A list of innovative community-based or -adjacent organizations
Jun 21 🧑🏻🦲 Even Marc Andreesen is talking about coliving
⭐️ Jun 21 😤 I quit my job...!
⭐️ May 21 The MacArchive Genius Grant & pre-idea accelerator
⭐️ May 21 Scaling relationship building
⭐️ Mar 21 🛰 Dimensions of meaning from community
⭐️ Dec 20 🔥 Elliott Jin interviewed me about cohousing: the 18min summary
🌟 Jun 20 🗺 A mindmap of my community beliefs
⭐️ Oct 18 🤯 Megyn Kelly interviews us about coliving on live, national TV
⭐️ Aug 18 Interview with Andrea Martinez from the Embassy house in SF
Resources
🏡 A list of coliving spaces in the Bay Area with availability