1. COMMUNITY AS IDENTITY, NOT A GEOGRAPHICAL LOCALE

2. SHIFT FROM CONSUMER TO MEMBER

3. BREAKING FREE FROM DESIRING BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW — NEW STRATEGIES, NOT JUST KNOWN ONES

4. I’M NOT CREATING AN EXPERIENCE FOR YOU, I AM PROVIDING YOU WITH A SEED TO CREATE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE — WE MUST ALL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME PART OF THE CREATION PROCESS

5. DARK SIDES — WE WILL EXPERIENCE NEW ITERATIONS OF PAIN WE MAY NOT HAVE FELT BEFORE AS A RESULT OF NEW WORLDS

6. FOSTERING CULTURE, OR “HORIZONTAL DEPTH” IN CULTURE CAN BE AT ODDS WITH GROWTH. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR GROWTH TO BE A GOAL?

7. I GUESS I HAVE TO LEARN TO CODE SO I CAN KEEP EXPANDING UPON APP INTIMACY RE: “I’D LIKE A SPOT THAT’S JUST FOR ME” — BUT ALSO AS THE WORLD EXPANDS, TURNING IN IS WHAT FEELS MOST PROGRESSIVE

8. COEXISTENCE WITH THIS NEW WORLD AND ITS TECHNOLOGIES VS COERCED DEPENDENCE. A SYMBIOSIS.

9. LONGEVITY — THE CREATION OF WORLDS YOU DO NOT REGULARLY NEED TO ESCAPE FROM

10. WHAT CAN WE DO, INSTEAD OF WHAT YOU CAN DO?

11. THE NEXT ROMANCE I WILL KNOW IS THE PROCESS OF DECODING, THE SUBTLETIES BETWEEN PURE UNDERSTANDING AND THE ENIGMATIC

12. THE ONBOARDING ISSUE — WE CAN DO HARD THINGS. IT IS NOT NECESSARILY ABOUT THE STEPS; WE HAVE USHERED IN OTHER ERAS AND TECHNOLOGIES, BUT TRANSLATING THEM IN A WAY, IN A CONTEXT, THAT IS BOTH CULTURALLY RESONANT AND INSPIRES EMOTIONAL AFFINITY. LET’S BREAK DOWN THE PROMISE. SEE POINT 2 AGAIN

13. HOW WILL YOU ASSERT THAT YOU ARE “HERE” IN THE NEW WORLD?

Our social relationships with each other—our culture, our learning, our art, our shared jokes and shared sorrow, raising our children, attending to our elderly, and together dreaming of our future—these are the essence of what it means to be human. We thrive as individuals and communities by caring for others, and being taken care of in turn. Collective infrastructural systems that are resilient, sustainable, and globally equitable provide the means for us to care for each other at scale. They are a commitment to our shared humanity.