Lenny Distilled

Communities die without multiple engaged voices

Leadership → Culture

You want to have a space too small, a time too short. If you have a big cabinet space of a lot of people in it and no one's talking, people go, 'I guess this is the place where we don't talk,' for whatever reason.

Alex KomoroskeThinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske

A community with no people talking is definitely dead. A community with one person talking is already dead. You don't realize it yet.

Alex KomoroskeThinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
Supporting

It's not just the software, it's also like: how are the meetups? How are people getting together? What events are you running? Are there forums? How do people contribute?

Matt MullenwegThe one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay