14/ As I’ve been saying since one of my early Breaking Smart essays, geography is the strongest filter bubble (credit for this insight to @pmarca). But we now know a shit ton more about why this is and what the consequences are.
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25/ Until there are products that better meet this need, we’ll keep having to deal with entrenched Circled Wagons. They’ll continue to die slowly, painfully, and angrily. With their Boomer edge eventually dying and leaving behind a radicalized youth in unviable/unlivable towns.
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Tinder for X doesn't count since it is at most few-to-few connecting offline? Would the next successful precipitation tech look like circled-wagon to future generations?
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Good sir what about online dating?! That has got to be the biggest win of precipitation tech. Maybe you opted out of that game early :P There's been a couple LA based efforts to find new people via digital things though seemed to have largely failed: https://beta.techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/social-network-at-the-pool-relaunches-on-mobile-with-an-app-to-better-connect-nearby-friends/ …
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Haha yes I met my wife IRL :) Agreed, it’s a huge precipitation tech, but for n=2, so not quite community-seeding.
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Looking forward, this isn't a pure tech so much as tech + institutions game IMHO. Schools are a great example. Done right there's an opportunity to reinvent public schools as centers of community and use digital tools to enable lifelong learning.
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WhatsApp does this job quite well in India. For every old physical community I was a part of (including some from 35 years ago) I'm on a WhatsApp group. And mini reunions get organized whenever one person is visiting a town with a critical mass of people.
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This has resulted in increased interactions and collaborations and other community things that were totally missing in the pre-WhatsApp-but-post-physical-community-breakup interregnum
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