ThrivingTheFuture Podcast – Episode 1 Community

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In hard times Community may be the difference between existing and thriving.

What is Community? It’s usually described as a place – your town or even your neighborhood. But it is also used to describe like-minded people – your tribe.

What tribe(s) do you belong to? Where do you fit in?

In Episode 1 of the ThrivingTheFuture Podcast, Scott and Perpend discuss Community:

  • What is community? It’s not what you think.
  • What is necessary for successful community:
    • Worldview
    • Skin in the game/Proof of Work
    • Proximity
    • Common purpose
    • Common culture
  • Challenges
  • Intentional community
  • Building parallel systems.

ThrivingTheFuture Podcast on iTunes
https://odysee.com/@ThrivingTheFuture:9/Ep1-Community:4

note that we had some brief periodic electronic interference in the audio while recording. I edited that out, for the most part. We will improve this process in future episodes.

6 thoughts on “ThrivingTheFuture Podcast – Episode 1 Community”

  1. Hi Scott and Perpend. Thank you for this podcast. It helped me evaluate my activities from a different perspective.

    I have not heard a definition of community that requires as much interpersonal caring. I am referring to what Perpend described as checking in regularly. If I understood correctly, he said that if a community member is not checking in regularly with other members to see how they are doing, then they are just using the other members. I would definitely be a failure by that standard, but then I wondered if Perpend’s definition of community is closer to my definition of friendship.

    I am really enjoying your site. Beautiful job.

    • Hello Wendy,

      As you know I am always doing more things at once than is probably best for me. So I have be remiss in answering you comments.

      I think there are several concentric spheres of community. I think this will be come more clear as we go along. Rather than do long form 2-3 hour podcasts we want to focus on the 30 and under minute podcast. That fits in with most people workouts or drive times. I personally hate having to pause and restart podcasts. To get the same cover the same ground each episode will build on top of the previous ones. This also allow listeners to comment and we can clarify. We want a deep months to years long conversation not sound bites and entertainment. Though we do hope to entertaining as well.

      What I have noticed is that many people think people are of “like mind” to them and consider them community. “like minded” is a dangerous phrase it build on assumptions not facts. The assumption that my neighbor thinks like me just because we live in the same area avoids real conversations. Most people are so lonely and separated they think like a meme on facebook is connection. So they settle for a person they talk or do something with once a month as their best friend and never have a real conversation about what they value. This is one of the things tearing the world apart right now. People do not have healthy friendships they are not listening to each other.

      Knowing you are probably right on that what I am calling a community you would call a friend. I think you would agree that many people do not even have friends anymore. While we have not made it work out yet you are one of the few people that has tried to work out us seeing each other in person. I talk with hundreds of people online, I can count on one hand the number of them that have sent me a message asking to meet up. Some of them live closer to me than you do. Yet they say we are community, I am trying to get people to see the distance between that and your inner sphere of community. Geography does not create community. Being in the same chat rooms does not create community. Relationships create community. Healthy relationships create healthy communities. I think we can agree that in the present we lack healthy communities. That inner sphere of friends is how we heal that, by not lieing to ourselves about what it should look like.

  2. A resilient worldview is local, but regional (personal) relationships may also be important. We haven’t experienced shortages, but we have a lot of maker relationships and these aren’t all hyperlocal.

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