Ep. 96 - Community vs. Networking

After two years and almost 100 episodes, we discuss how our views of community have changed.

In Ep. 1 of the podcast Perpend and I discussed what is necessary for successful community:

• Worldview

• Skin in the game/Proof of Work

• Proximity

• Common purpose

• Common culture

Are you doing community or just networking?

Networking can be transactional and extracting; Community is more holistic and is more about people. It is sharing life and culture.

When your community workshops become so mundane that you don't take pictures anymore, It is something that you do. Something that shares life and culture. That's where you see people stay or fall away.

After things went back to "normal" we saw less engagement and people don't want to get together and do stuff. They just wanted to create a network, and have a "parallel economy". How did that work out two years later?

Then I discuss the different levels of community. You naturally have inner and outer circles. There is no purity test unless you are talking about forming intentional community. The inner and outer circles are gates that function to answer the question "who can I trust?"

Tips for building community:

• Meetups - these can be formal (monthly meeting) or informal (coffee shop or restaurant).

• Workshops - build community by sharing skills.

• weekly chats or calls.

Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/community-vs-networking

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