Hello everyone, I am super grateful to everybody who has joined here and given me great feedback. I've been doing a lot of introspection lately, and I feel like I've honed in on exactly the kind of value that I want to give to the world. But I'm going to need your help to do it. That means this community will be closing and a new one will be opening. Selfishly, I'm making the kind of community that I need more than anything. And that's one where a passionate and small group of community builders holds each other accountable to their goals every day. // When I was fortunate enough to join a small startup called monday.com as employee #1 in the US, even later when we went public, every manager I had always attributed my success in many parts to a few simple superpowers that weren't special or even hard. 1- I always knew how to celebrate the success of something before I started anything. Every time I forgot to do this, the project ended up as a disaster. That's why I had a work journal. 2- I was able to transfer my excitement to my team about even the most mundane things, like project management software. That's why I got good at finding and telling stories. 3- I learned that everything was a system. And anything that didn't have a system was doomed to fail. But even with the best systems, if you don't adhere to them or don't have them built and integrated into your life, they will deteriorate. Our greatest enemy is entropy. Once I left the corporate world and started working for myself, I left many of those systems behind, and entropy crept in. After speaking with over a hundred community builders, I realized the simple truth. A vast majority of us know what we need to be doing, or just need a little bit more knowledge. The hard part is sticking to it through the good days and the bad. // So that's what this new community will be about. It will be about making a commitment to yourself to grow and utilize these systems that I have refined over the past 10 years of community building and over 30k spent on coaching.

Hi friends, one of the biggest opportunities that I am seeing constantly from our amazing community of builders here is that you not only need to get your message in front of the right people... but you need it to clearly point to how their attention is best spent with you because of how deeply you understand them. In a meta way, you all joined here likely because I did a halfway decent job of explaining that I could give you some utility to help you achieve your own goals, right? Here's the short summary: 1. You need to make sure that your audience feels like they deeply understand you. 2. You can do that by going through the process with AI to deeply dive into and profile those people. 3. As a thinking partner, AI will give you, at minimum, a much deeper understanding of who you are trying to serve and what they need from you. Our exercise in the comments: Who exactly is your target market and what are you trying to give them? Here are the prompts for you to check out! (CC @Brian Mangum!)

Hey everyone! 👋 This is our official "get to know each other" post for the whole group. Jump into the comments and tell us about yourself! (no pressure of course) Here's a few ideas to get started: - What got you into community building and is that what you do for a living? - What do you love to do in your free time? - What are you super proud of and why? - Feel free to link to your website or community Quick note: We want to get to know YOU as a person, so please focus your answer on, well, you! After you introduce yourself, scroll through and check out what others have shared. Leave some replies and connect with people - that's what this is all about! Can't wait to meet you all properly! 🙂 Cheers, Matt