Sam Pressler

Yeah. What I call like the privatization of community, we privatize these types of interventions that used to be shared experiences that we all have. And so a lot of this gets really tricky once we enmesh that with the venture capital-based funding model.

And to believe that there is this quick self-help fix that is going to solve these issues just reflects not a sense of the depth of these challenges.

And to believe that there is this quick self-help fix that is going to solve these issues just reflects not a sense of the depth of these challenges.

And to believe that there is this quick self-help fix that is going to solve these issues just reflects not a sense of the depth of these challenges.

Oh, absolutely. What we've decided is kind of to apply the logic of transaction and the logic of commerce, which is all based on individual decisions to the realm of human relationships.

Oh, absolutely. What we've decided is kind of to apply the logic of transaction and the logic of commerce, which is all based on individual decisions to the realm of human relationships.

Oh, absolutely. What we've decided is kind of to apply the logic of transaction and the logic of commerce, which is all based on individual decisions to the realm of human relationships.

I really do think it's worth naming across all of this is the Classified. Stick around.

I really do think it's worth naming across all of this is the Classified. Stick around.

I really do think it's worth naming across all of this is the Classified. Stick around.

There's something really interesting in what he said. And I think it gets this idea that like tools are neutral, right? And what we've decided is to apply values to these tools, like growth, scale, efficiency, values of the market.

There's something really interesting in what he said. And I think it gets this idea that like tools are neutral, right? And what we've decided is to apply values to these tools, like growth, scale, efficiency, values of the market.

There's something really interesting in what he said. And I think it gets this idea that like tools are neutral, right? And what we've decided is to apply values to these tools, like growth, scale, efficiency, values of the market.

two tools that ultimately if our end goal is facilitating human relationships and community those values are misapplied and so wahini what i hear in your experience is like that was actually a tool that was well designed to facilitate connection right there are other examples of that as well right there's this group that i wrote about it's in vermont called the front porch forum and they're like the opposite of next door like they are intentionally designed to facilitate slow frictionful interactions that demonstrate social trust in neighborhoods

two tools that ultimately if our end goal is facilitating human relationships and community those values are misapplied and so wahini what i hear in your experience is like that was actually a tool that was well designed to facilitate connection right there are other examples of that as well right there's this group that i wrote about it's in vermont called the front porch forum and they're like the opposite of next door like they are intentionally designed to facilitate slow frictionful interactions that demonstrate social trust in neighborhoods

two tools that ultimately if our end goal is facilitating human relationships and community those values are misapplied and so wahini what i hear in your experience is like that was actually a tool that was well designed to facilitate connection right there are other examples of that as well right there's this group that i wrote about it's in vermont called the front porch forum and they're like the opposite of next door like they are intentionally designed to facilitate slow frictionful interactions that demonstrate social trust in neighborhoods

And they were able to do that because they bootstrapped that model with an intentional design of the tool to promote relationships both online but in real life. Whereas Nextdoor took $400 million in venture and private equity funding and because of those things had to hit certain targets around scale, around revenue, around growth.

And they were able to do that because they bootstrapped that model with an intentional design of the tool to promote relationships both online but in real life. Whereas Nextdoor took $400 million in venture and private equity funding and because of those things had to hit certain targets around scale, around revenue, around growth.

And they were able to do that because they bootstrapped that model with an intentional design of the tool to promote relationships both online but in real life. Whereas Nextdoor took $400 million in venture and private equity funding and because of those things had to hit certain targets around scale, around revenue, around growth.

that then ended up pushing them away from those very values that we're talking about. So when I hear you, Wahini, that's a tool for, as Ivan Ilyich would say, a tool for conviviality. It's a tool designed for interaction and for relationship, not for the outcomes of the market. Yeah.