Bryan Power
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121 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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We just really believe that Nextdoor is a way for people to come out of their house and get to know who's living around them. Maybe you connect online, but you will meet each other in the offline or in the real world. It's very different from the way other platforms are based on who you know, regardless of where they might live.
Well, I think the most important thing is the community is kind of already there. We find people who are active on Nextdoor, the people who are telling neighbors, hey, you know, this is going on where I live in the East Bay. The power is out or no, that fire is not a real fire. Don't worry about it.
There's certain people who are like these neighborhood leaders or community leaders, like they're naturally inclined to operate like this. Nextdoor is just giving them a platform to be able to do what's already their natural instinct that much easier. We don't need to create all of these leaders.
We just need them to learn this is an easier way for them to connect with their neighbors in their neighborhood. Again, I think almost everyone has at least some level of shared identity with the people that live around them. Sometimes it's just crisis-driven. It's like there is a fire nearby or there's a hurricane coming. But in those moments, everyone is worried about their local community.
We've seen everywhere in the U.S. in particular, when there's a hurricane warning or a flood warning, our usage goes up because people are now, their neighborhood is now top of mind for them. It's an urgent, time-sensitive situation. And so we're a great way for them to connect to the other people who really care, where if you're in Maine, you're not as worried about a hurricane in Florida.
So that's why the experience of the neighborhoods in Florida getting online when there's a hurricane, it's just much easier and intuitive for them to think about what's going on locally with Nextdoor.
We see lots of little moments. What I mean by that is that what's harder for our platform is, you know, when the local neighborhood rallies around an event, like we're famous for finding lost pets, which is a deeply personal, terrifying experience when someone can't find their dog, you know?
I'm not sure that many people care hundreds of miles away about a dog that went missing, but everyone who knows the neighborhood, like they're all gonna go help find the dog, right? What was unique to COVID was that was a moment where the whole world cared about their local community. Everyone was worried about the elderly from getting exposed.
Who can I help go to the grocery store with who might be immunocompromised? Like that was a global local moment, which was totally rare. Like I said, we've seen these local moments, but they tend to be driven by some type of local event. And so what struck me, which was really confirming was, no, yeah, this is a whole world thing.
It just depends on what's going on in the community during that time. That's what was really unique about the COVID experience being in Nextdoor.
Oh man, there are so many things. I think what I found later is And it's tied to this idea of taking on challenging things. It's really about managing mental health and understanding what is really going to fill your tank or my tank with the positive energy to take on big things.
I think really early I knew I wanted to take on challenges, but what I've learned is if I'm disciplined or maybe practiced with making the right amount of time for the right amount of activities to make sure I can take on the biggest and hardest things, I'll be better equipped to take on even more. It took me like a while to really put those two things together.
And so the way I really think about it now is Worry less about is it too hard or too much as long as you're putting yourself in the best position to do your best. That time and understanding of what really gives you that juice is important.
The people who are really self-aware about this, who are really rigorous about doing the things that will give them energy and not do the things that don't, you can see they tend to achieve more. It took me a little later than I would have liked to really understand, like deeply understand the importance of this.
Yeah, and it's different for everybody. Like many people, when you're younger, you think about exciting things, going on vacation, traveling and new adventures. As I've gotten older, you know, it's a different set of things that really gets me ready and really trying different things to figure out what those are. Because I think that they're different for everybody.
But understanding what it is for you and really knowing and really sticking to it, I think is simple but significant.
Yeah, for sure. It's also the idea of recovery. I see so many people who are burned out or stressed. They've stopped these practices that help them recover. I can think a woman I worked with who I was really fond of was just going through a difficult period. And I knew she was a college athlete, high school athlete.
And she wanted to talk to me about, she didn't think she could get through this or whatever, just a tough moment. And I was like, when was the last time you worked out or went for a run? She's like, it's been months. And I'm like, that's the thing. I know you. I know that this is the thing that lets you achieve these things. And those tend to be the first things that people cut
when they're under duress it's the exact wrong thing i think when i was younger this felt hypocritical to me like well i don't understand there's just not enough time i need more time to do this but there's only so much time right energy is really the thing that you can control and so taking away the things that will give you more energy limits the amount of stuff you're going to do with the time that's available to you and so i think that took me longer than i wanted to internalize
And I see it again and again. I tell people and I feel them eye rolling that they just don't have time to get another hour of sleep or to work out or to read books or to think. They're like, I was too busy. But their ability to operate when busy is really compromised by this deficiency in their quality of their energy and the amount of it.
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