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I just listened to "How to build a Lasting Community" by @ted 

Awesome talk and full of tactical nuggets! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCncjJyH5E

Doing a summary of key points, what I learned, and how I will implement. Will share it in public to have some accountability as I think this is important!

As promised, here are takeways @ted's conversation on how to build lasting communities + the actions i want to take based on those insights:

1. "Community as a building" (analogy)

A community is like a building full of neighbors who add value to each other, build relationships, meet frequently, and share a purpose.

Your product is the building; your job is shaping the common areas.

The best community design? Getting out of the way so your users can do fun stuff together

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Recommend content and transactions to your users with custom models pre-trained on Farcaster data. Let's make people's voices heard 🤝 Incubated @a16zcrypto CSX'23 -  https://www.mbd.xyz

Follow to get the best of Farcaster using @mbd - AI Recommendation Engine for Web3. @a16zcrypto css23. Ex-ML Lead @Chainlink. Ex-Sr Data Scientist @AWS.

2. "Be your first user"

This is good for both product and getting a better sense/more empathy towards users

On this one, It's been a while we haven't hacked on a consumer experience leveraging our algos @mbd. I will organize an internal hackathon this Feb. Have to find ways to use our product daily!

4. "Give your users ownership and they will surprise you. Easy win is just ask for feedback or better make them "benevolent dictator" for a day/week."

On this one I will accelerate building features for "user generated Algo/Feeds/Scores", then ask for feeback from 100s of people and highlight the best ones

5. "Create space for users to help each other, build rituals & experiences, and recognise the community contributions"

To align with that point I want to 
a. create a GC of people interested in AI + Social. 
b. highlight some of the hackers who broke our beta multiple times ;)
c. host high quality events for Social builders at conferences 
d. need to keep thinking what kinds of activities we could have online

3. "Build with your users, not for them. Do things that don't scale (going to where they are, onboard them personally one by one)"

I used to do this last year and will double down, traveling to meet builder one by one doesn't scale but I love it