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After reading and re reading the first chapters of the book I finally decided to scrap the direction and start over. It feels too condescending and self absorbed and needs to be of more value to the reader. I was hoping to be able to make the case for cities and their communities by touting their technical superiority (that sentence came out as a mouthful) But instead I am realizing its best to have more fun with it. That and I finally convinced Jessie (my super cool wife) to write it with me. She and I work very well together but never really dug into the book the first time around.

I recently read Seth Godin’s new book Tribes and was inspired by the way it was written. Instead of the usual chapters lined up with the standard story line succession it was a series of short blurbs about different topics that all came together to make one big story. I like that idea.

But there is one thing that I do not want to change about the book. We still need you to help out in making it come to life. And it in that spirit that I am going to ask your help on picking the topics…

We are thinking of the new concept as a inspiration to make your community better. Giving both examples of people who have built strong communities and ideas and tools for building your own. We want to inspire tighter stronger communities to form around what they feel is right.

It’s a good time in our country, the landscape is starting to be truly shaped from the ground up and there is no better time to step up and build a strong community.

But here is where you come in, we need some examples of people who stepped up and built a community. People who stood for something and brought in others to stand with them, or people who just wanted to have some friends.

Got any good stories for us? Post em here and we will fit them into the book. And don’t worry about having all the details or even making it perfect. Even if you just have an idea that you think needs to be written about. Lets start to flush out some ideas and talk about how to make the world a better place.

Levi