Another app for property and community management... that brings hope!
Our dear friend @Mayank, who is also head of marketing at Co-Liv and who founded a coliving marketplace before, just launched a new product: JumboTiger!
I'm actually not sure where the name is coming from, but the app brings a lot of features into one:
- communication between team mates (including decision-making)
- communication between operator and residents
- property inspection tools and property visits (including scheduling)
- communication between operator and residents
- property inspection tools and property visits (including scheduling)
What Property Management System are you currently using - if any ❓
We were sitting around a bonfire when the topic of discussion came up: what is community?
Both my friend and I had been staying for two weeks in this coliving space, but our understanding of community was different.
On my side, I said that we were a community, even if we might not stay together after this month is over. On his side, he felt that for us to be a community, something was missing.
For him, community required the people to have a shared mission. Like we tend to identify ourselves with our struggles, so would communities define themselves with their common cause.
In my response, I said that our common struggle was to live and grow together, but that wasn’t enough for him. He needed the cause to be something that drives us individually and that brings us together, collectively.
So the question goes back to you now: when is a community truly a community? 🧐
(respond in these comments)
Both my friend and I had been staying for two weeks in this coliving space, but our understanding of community was different.
On my side, I said that we were a community, even if we might not stay together after this month is over. On his side, he felt that for us to be a community, something was missing.
For him, community required the people to have a shared mission. Like we tend to identify ourselves with our struggles, so would communities define themselves with their common cause.
In my response, I said that our common struggle was to live and grow together, but that wasn’t enough for him. He needed the cause to be something that drives us individually and that brings us together, collectively.
So the question goes back to you now: when is a community truly a community? 🧐
(respond in these comments)
👉 Here were a few thoughts that I had during that night on family vs. community (and how to get the best out of both):
1. The difference between family and community is that community is about alignment: you choose to be part of a community because you share an identity with these people. If there is no more alignment, then you would leave the community freely. Family is not about alignment: in fact, you can feel that your family is not your community - and yet, even if that’s the case, there will be a stronger sense of innate responsibility and willingness to sacrifice within a family than a community. Imagine that you have a grave accident tomorrow and wake up with a 50,000 dollar bill - guess who will step in, your community or your family? The question therefore becomes: how can we create the sense of responsibility for other members within communities? As this would mean the best of both worlds.
2. Communities and personal relationships are freely chosen because people believe that being in a relationship is a net sum positive outcome - which is often is, but sometimes it's a trap or an illusion, such as in abusive relationships. Once people realize that the relationship is actually more destructive than enhancing, people break the ties.
3. Those two statements gave me clarify that "the health of a relationship will be the amount of alignment, while the strength of the relationship will be the amount of responsibility".
1. The difference between family and community is that community is about alignment: you choose to be part of a community because you share an identity with these people. If there is no more alignment, then you would leave the community freely. Family is not about alignment: in fact, you can feel that your family is not your community - and yet, even if that’s the case, there will be a stronger sense of innate responsibility and willingness to sacrifice within a family than a community. Imagine that you have a grave accident tomorrow and wake up with a 50,000 dollar bill - guess who will step in, your community or your family? The question therefore becomes: how can we create the sense of responsibility for other members within communities? As this would mean the best of both worlds.
2. Communities and personal relationships are freely chosen because people believe that being in a relationship is a net sum positive outcome - which is often is, but sometimes it's a trap or an illusion, such as in abusive relationships. Once people realize that the relationship is actually more destructive than enhancing, people break the ties.
3. Those two statements gave me clarify that "the health of a relationship will be the amount of alignment, while the strength of the relationship will be the amount of responsibility".
And finally, I found words for what coliving truly means to me:
"Coliving is about discovering oneself through the interaction and presence of others."
And with that, I leave you with a few pictures from our weekend trip, where we hikek on top of a volcano, played trumped, danced and DJed until the night took us away 🌋
"Coliving is about discovering oneself through the interaction and presence of others."
And with that, I leave you with a few pictures from our weekend trip, where we hikek on top of a volcano, played trumped, danced and DJed until the night took us away 🌋
PS: Yes, this is another key advantage of living in community: creating memories of a life-time from experiences that you could not have pulled off by yourself.