7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
The world's largest online chess platform — surging to 100+ million members after The Queen's Gambit Netflix series — providing games, puzzles, analysis, and tournaments.
American fitness brand founded by Greg Glassman in 2000 — combining Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, and metabolic conditioning in timed workouts — which created the most successful fitness community model through its affiliated gym ('box') franchise system.
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian's San Francisco link aggregation and discussion platform — the front page of the internet — with millions of communities covering every conceivable topic.
Social platform designed to facilitate in-person connections and community events — positioned against the isolation of conventional social media by promoting real-world gathering.
George Dawes Green's nonprofit storytelling organization — which presents live unscripted personal stories on stage — whose podcast distributes these performances — the most influential live storytelling organization.
Sebastian Junger's 2016 book arguing that humans are wired for tribal belonging — shared purpose, mutual obligation, facing adversity together — and that modern affluent individualistic society fails to provide these conditions, producing depression, PTSD, and purposelessness.
International membership organization founded in 1966 to study and recreate medieval European history through reenactment — combat, crafts, period clothing, and culture.