👋 Welcome to another week of opening your mind to expanding what your community could be.
🌈 This week in Rosieland:
‘I have no neighbours’: overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit | The Guardian
The future requires regulation that centres around community. The balance is off in so many parts of the world.
“It’s very weird. Imagine, I have no neighbours, even though I’m in the middle of a big city,” said Alex, who lives in a building in Lisbon where every single other unit is rented via platforms such as Airbnb. “It’s like I live in a ghost place. There’s plenty of people, I just don’t know anybody.”
Relational Offsetting | Relationships Projects
The Relationships Project, we define relational offsetting as:
Taking out a relationship in one part of a service and using the resources to double down on relationships in another.
The Future of Online Communities – Insights from the Online Community Unconference 2025 | Bill Johnston
Bill hosted an Online Community Unconference and kindly shared an overview of the insights. With the key takeaway that communities are at a cross roads:
- The commodification of community has led to an overemphasis on engagement metrics rather than long-term value creation.
- AI is reshaping community management, creating new efficiencies but also raising ethical concerns about trust, privacy, and human connection.
- Executives still struggle to see clear ROI, resulting in underinvestment and misalignment between business goals and community impact.
- The next decade of community strategy will be defined by intelligence, trust, and integration across business functions.
The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics | Leadership Garden
This article relates to team dynamics, but it can apply to communities too.
Discover how naming what's happening in the room can defuse tense meetings, improve team dynamics, and elevate your leadership skills. Learn practical tips from an experienced tech leader on using this powerful communication technique to transform difficult conversations and drive better outcomes.
In Distrust of Movements | Wendell Berry
One from the archives...
I am dissatisfied with such efforts because they are too specialized, they are not comprehensive enough, they are not radical enough, they virtually predict their own failure by implying that we can remedy or control effects while leaving causes in place. Ultimately, I think, they are insincere; they propose that the trouble is caused by other people; they would like to change policy but not behavior.
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