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reading list for culture makers

Culture

  • The internet culture era by Yancey Strickler
  • Headless brands by Sam Hart, Laura Lotti, Toby Shorin
  • Product Zeitgeist Fit: A Cheat Code for Spotting and Building the Next Big Thing

Belonging

  • A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 communities
  • Building Psychological Attachment — Not Just Ownership — Into Web3

Community

  • You’re Running The Wrong Way
  • A thread on building community by Eliot Couvat
  • The 12 Principles of Collaboration
  • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging by Charles Vogl
  • Sense of Community: A Definition and Theory by David W. McMillan &David M. Chavis
  • The Holy Grail Of Building Communities: Developing A Strong Sense of Community by Richard Millington
  • Psychological Sense of Community: Theory of McMillan & Chavis (1986) by Dr. Stephen Wright

Lore

  • Web3 design principles
  • Lands of Lorecraft by Venkatesh Rao
  • Lorecraft: a tool for web3 community building
  • The Lore Zone by Libby Marrs & Tiger Dingsun
  • The Power of Metaphor! Using Our Lenses to Enrich Web3 Communities by David Spinks, Raphael Hernandez, Sara Campbell, Ethan Nelson
  • From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Framework by Sari About

World-Building

  • Ian Cheng: Emissaries Guide to Worlding
  • Worldbuilding, Pt. 1: Worlds are the new brands.
  • Worldbuilding, Pt. 2: Participation is essential to a world’s longevity.

Meme

  • The Meme-Utility Spectrum
2025.07.22
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