Amber Case reflects on where you live and how returning to a familiar place can help you think clearer. She discusses seeking authentic, small-scale community — work nights, recess-like breaks, welcoming rituals, and mutual support — and contrasts these with expensive, scalable “community” models that lack the qualities that make real community work.
She connects this to “the revenge of the real” — tactile cognition, constraints, long-term thinking, and calm technology principles. Effective communities rely on kindness, simplicity, history, and durable governance patterns.
Links: Amber Case · The Place You Love Is Gone · Marshall McLuhan · Cory Doctorow