Neal Gorenflo

Over 3,000 people participated in the sessions from which this new #MutualAid toolkit was created. An incredible number of participants chipped in to fund its creation. Much gratitude & appreciation for participants & Shareable staff for making this happen.

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@YIMBYLAND Small houses are easy living. I lived in a 700sf house w/ my girlfriend & now wife. We loved it. It had a big backyard shared by the two adjacent similar units. The owner scraped all three units & built a McMansion on the lot, totally out of scale of the surrounding houses.

This is the most popular Sears catalog home ever made, The Crafton. It was 600 sqft. Nobody seems to remember that the American Dream was built on the backs of 600 sqft homes.

@cabindotcity So Cabin as a company is closing, but the communities will continue informally without Cabin the company. Is that correct?

Cabin is winding down operations and distributing the money in the DAO's treasury proportionally to token holders. If you are a token holder: before May 13th, make sure all of your tokens are at the address where you want to receive USDC. Cabin pioneered the concept of network cities and spent the last four years looking for the combination of product and market that would allow us to sustainably grow our global network of neighborhoods. We started out as a residency program for internet people to get together in person, built a global network of rural coliving hubs for digital nomads, and are now growing an accelerator program for neighborhood builders. Throughout each phase, we’ve tried to stay true to our community-centric ethos and long-term vision while also building something that could grow with a sustainable business model. Three years ago, Cabin approved a proposal to create its current governance token and sell some of the tokens to 52 community members, angels, and venture capital firms. Almost a year later we sold more tokens to venture firms. Since then we’ve run dozens of experiments in an effort to find a business model that made sense for Cabin. In the last year alone, we rapidly iterated on a wide range of product & business models, and explored paths for building financial sustainability around our network of neighborhoods. Our conclusion from these experiments is that venture-backed businesses, DAOs, and community-driven networks serve different purposes, and that this tension is holding Cabin back. Venture-backed startups work best as small, focused teams that rapidly pivot to find hyper-growth business opportunities that are financially viable in the short-term. DAOs work best as a credibly neutral governance mechanism for distributing ecosystem grants from an existing cashflowing protocol. Community-driven networks work best when they serve as the loose connective tissue for many people to independently explore adjacent paths building what they find most interesting and valuable. We believe that Cabin should stop operating like a venture-backed startup and a DAO and continue as an informal community-driven network. As a result, last week we passed a proposal to wind down DAO operations and distribute the money in the DAO's treasury proportionally to token holders. Here's what happens next: Starting immediately, Cabin will no longer fund new governance proposals On May 13th, we will take a snapshot of ₡ABIN token holdings that will be used to distribute assets By May 15th, we will distribute the treasury proportionally to the addresses in the snapshot On May 16th, we will hold a Composting Community Gathering Over the next few weeks, we will wind down operations and legal entities Over the last four years we explored the frontiers together, planted the seeds of a network city, and created a dense web of relationships that will last a lifetime. We are incredibly proud of what we’ve dreamed of and built together, and we can’t wait to see what this community does next to build the future we all believe in. See you on the trail.

@cognazor So cute!

We got sheep!

@gregisenberg I recommend @jowyang, veteran tech analyst, AI VC & host of the Llama Lounge, hugely successful AI event series in SF.

I'm coming to San Francisco in 2 weeks and want to hang out. Who are the most interesting founders building with AI? Who should I record a pod with? I'll probably throw a meet-up if people are down. Who wants to hang out?

@leashless @owocki So true. Used items disappear from our society, datawise. Exhiled to a nowhere land. Off our radar. Every used item & part should be instantly identifiable & saleable/gifted/lended/rented.

@owocki Everybody. All humans. Specifically, physical things (outside of a few special cases like houses) have no identities. As a result they're hard to sell on secondary markets. This is responsible for maybe 10% or 20% of humanity's environmental footprint. mattereum.com/2019/09/13/the…

which real-world groups have burning problems Ethereum is uniquely suited to solve?

@TornadoNate Research all the old, venacular and/or low ways house were / are built to be an aid to life, manage resources well & protect from weather. Like ways food was stored (root cellars), cooled or heated naturally, water collected, linens stored (hot presses) & more.

Give me your wildest house ideas. Not wild like outrageously expensive, wild like unconventional and awesome

@RichDecibels I once snorkeled between two islands w/ tricky currents in btw. I tried to take the most direct route, but the current wouldn't let me. Instead, I drifted with the current parallel to the shore until it changed in my favor. Then I powered with the current to the shore.

I wanna write about the most vexing issue in my life rn and I'm curious to hear responses from anyone who recognises themselves in my story: in my leadership journey I'm taking responsibility for mobilising collective action, towards ambitious goals, amid conditions of uncertainty this journey looks like a stream, stretches of open flow interrupted by bottlenecks & difficult rapids when I get stuck, it seems to always be one of two stances that get me moving again. I call them "determination" and "surrender". (you could call them "yang" and "yin") determination is pushing, lifting, cutting through, speaking, hitting, building, striving, tensing, converging surrender is releasing, receiving, listening, relaxing, giving up, leaning back, digesting, napping, waiting, dissolving, letting go ok so far so good, leadership is the tightrope walk between paradox... nothing new here. but the issue that's vexing me these days is I yearn for a heuristic that helps me decide when to use determination and when to use surrender any clues?

@HFreinacht A lot of bad can happen in the interim, unfortunately.

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." —Winston Churchill

@aspiringpeasant And humor.

I am *finally* as sexy as I’ve always thought I could be

@dlondonwortel @nmcinroy @ilsr @GoodJobsFirst @RurUrbBridge Bravo! Breaking monopoly, including media monopolies, would both deconcentrate wealth & lessen polarization (political & geographic).

@gorenflo @nmcinroy @ilsr @GoodJobsFirst @RurUrbBridge

Rural areas are in decline. Cities face housing crises. Both problems stem from the same cause: monopoly. The solution? Deconcentrating and redistributing economic activity, thus breaking the cycle of uneven development. Check out my latest substack: open.substack.com/pub/dlondon7/p…

@imboringads Can you recommend a class to learn vibe marketing?

Vibe marketing" isn't some fluffy concept—it's the complete restructuring of how marketing operates. I'm an ads guy and I always share tips and tricks to help you boost your conversions and get the most out of your ads and marketing, but something needs to be said. Something that the @boringmarketer and @gregisenberg have been talking about for some time and now caught the attention of the big media (and you should know all about it too). Here's what it means for you running ads: A single marketer with AI tools can now outperform entire agencies. This isn't hype—it's happening right now. The old way: weeks of planning, siloed specialists, bloated budgets. The new way: test dozens of angles in real-time, launch in days, adapt instantly. You don't need a 10-person team anymore. You need workflows and systems that operate autonomously. While everyone's debating platform changes, smart advertisers are building self-improving systems that test messaging, adjust targeting, and reallocate budgets WITHOUT human input. Tools that matter: workflow builders (Make, n8n), AI agents (Taskade, Relay), scraping tools (Phantom Buster), and design/copy AI. The gap between advertisers using these systems and those sticking to old methods will be like businesses with/without websites in 1998. The brutal truth: solopreneurs with $500 and these tools can now disrupt companies spending $50K/month on traditional marketing. I've spent years teaching tactical ad frameworks, but the game is changing. The marketers winning now aren't just writing better hooks—they're building autonomous systems that operate while they sleep. My prediction: In 12 months, if you're not using AI to run hundreds of marketing experiments simultaneously, you can forget it, because you'll already be dead. This isn't about replacing creativity. It's about removing the grunt work so you can focus on strategy and narrative. The $250B marketing industry isn't disappearing. It's being rebuilt. And it'll happen with or without you.

@SustainableTall what is demountable?

Norway’s first demountable timber office building, with reusable components Called HasleTre by Oslotre Architects

@dlondonwortel @GioB1974 Theory: to get more integration in the US context, we'd need more state & city level independence & self-sufficiency. The separation between rural & urban is indirectly federally subsidized.

@dlondonwortel @GioB1974 Worth investigating -> that there was more rural-urban integration in poleis. Maybe because there was no level of governance above the polis to interfere with it.

What are some good articles on socialist/social dem approaches towards creating economic balance between metropolitan and rural areas - in the words of Engels, of the gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country"? @GioB1974

@dlondonwortel Here's a good place to start: oecd.org/en/about/progr…

@gorenflo Awesome! Are there any good articles/papers on this? I wanna use this for my next substack

Rising housing costs in large cities. Economic decline in smaller cities. There are two of the defining urban trends of our era, with enormous political ramifications. But there might be a way to solve both of them together: through the regional city. Stay tuned.

@dlondonwortel More prominent in EU academic circles. Became central to my thinking abt cities, especially in light of needed transitions to eco-social societies. Intermediary cities are a bridge to the future where rural, urban & global can be productively integrated vs. current polarization.

@gorenflo I didn’t know about this concept - will definitely look this up!

For over 50 years, the Planet Drum Foundation has promoted bioregionalism through an amazing range of artworks and publications. Much of their material is free to view and download: I highly recommend diving in! planetdrum.org