If you’re building a community, there’s a lot of pitfalls and traps easy to slip into.

If you want to skip them and create a genuinely powerful community, there’s only one key thing to optimise for first.

The way people feel about one another, the trust they have for one another, that’s all a community is, at the end of the day.

If you have a suburb struck by an horrible emergency, and nobody things to check on one another, do you have a community?

Of course not.

In order for people to truly care for one another, they need to feel cared for.

They need to feel supported, to give support.