⭐️ 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 21
Not 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