Join my free Community Revenue Book Club
Read. Learn. Connect.
Hosted by Seth Resler
Learning the basics of community-building is more fun—and more effective—when you do it with other people. Every two weeks, we read about 100 pages from book about community-building and meet online to discuss it. Join us to connect with peers, explore ideas together, and level up your community-building knowledge.
This book club is free and open to anyone over the age of 21.
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Second Monday of Every Month
8:00pm ET / 5:00 pm PT
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Deep and accelerating inequality and the wealth gap; unprecedented political polarization and partisan division; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism—Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times.
But we’ve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However, as the 20th century opened, America became—slowly, unevenly, but steadily—more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s disarray.
In a “magnificent and visionary book” (The New Republic) drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again. He draws on inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community and civic renewal. This is Putnam’s most “remarkable” (Science) work yet, a fitting capstone to a brilliant career.
UPCOMING BOOKS:
- December 14th: The Upswing by Robert Putnam (Chapters 4 - 5)
- January 11th: The Upswing by Robert Putnam (Chapters 6 - End)
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Hi, I'm Seth Resler.
I help content creators, media professionals, and conference producers build businesses powered by community.
After more than 30 years in broadcasting, podcasting, event production, and digital marketing, I've seen how the pressure to constantly produce more content leads to burnout and diminishing returns. There's a better business model: Community Revenue.
Community Revenue creates value by connecting people to each other, not just to your content. If you're ready to stop chasing attention and start building a business powered by community, I'd love to help.
