#019 - Andrew Rose on Friends, Community, Isolation, & Fearlessness

Audience of One

Andrew Rose, along with his wife, Priya, are building The Neighborhood in New York City, with the goal of bringing together 1000 forward-looking, abundance-minded friends within walking distance of one another.

Andrew and I talk about community building and bringing friends together, isolation, implementing the right social technologies, balancing contentment and ambition, and more.

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(00:48) Building a community of 1000 friendly, ambitious, nerds within walking distance of one another (04:44) Why do we look so few people — especially friends — in the eye every day? (09:33) Seeing friends should be easy and fun (10:18) “Reversing the centrifuge”: why we're here and how we change it (16:24) Finding the right social technologies for your objectives (18:19) What are the small details you have to get right in physical communities? (21:08) The financial and governance systems they're using (and how that may change when they scale) (27:50) Is or will there be an online community? (30:26) Mitigating loneliness, obligation to humanity, and pooling social capital (34:54) Being content and ambitious (40:07) Can and should we encourage people to be less fearful? (42:37) Andrew’s final question for listeners

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Andrew’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/__drewface

https://fractalnyc.com/

https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-live-near-your-friends

https://andrewjrose.substack.com/

https://vienna.earth/plate/andrew/frontier

Spencer’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R

Spencer’s blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com/