## What it looks like ![[Pasted image 20251012184918.png]] ## The v2: with a common house ![[Pasted image 20251012190747.png]] ## The Archive: absorbing each other's superpowers - When you surround yourself with people you love and admire, in a setting that encourages spontaneous interaction, you naturally become your best self - The magic: **rate of unplanned interactions with people you love and respect** - Coliving sweet spot: 12-18 housemates, 4-8 years, lifelong friendships - **Everyone had a superpower to teach**: - Josh taught me all my productivity systems - Tom showed me I could get into ML without a PhD - Kanjun taught me to pick out 1:1 conversations at parties - [[Archive Mafia]] ## Being the epicenter of a [[Scenius]] - **If genius comes from your genes, "scenius" comes from your scene** - A scenius = time and place responsible for inordinate progress (Renaissance Florence, 1920s Paris, Silicon Valley 1970s) - Or: **an environment that helps elicit your latent potential** ## Baby Happy Hours at Radish - **Best practices from Radish**: - Parallel parenting over coparenting - Families in private units - Friends within **Baby Monitor Distance** = social life after kids go to bed at 7pm - **Baby Happy Hour every day 5:30-7pm in the yard** - Being Aunties and Uncles to your friends' kids - When it takes forty minutes to get a toddler ready to leave the house, turn them loose into a backyard where their friends are already playing = **freeing** - Parenting doesn't have to mean "exasperated and alone" ## Esmerelda and Chautauqua - [[Why Edge Esmerelda works]] - **Esmerelda works because the rate of unplanned interactions with people you love and respect is very high** - Spontaneous living: bump into a friend, agree you need coffee, walk across the plaza—15 minutes of connection built into your workday - Requires: walkable setting + common knowledge of accessible spaces - Living within walking distance of so many friends makes life **serendipitous** - [Esmerelda city council approval hearing: March 26, 2026](https://esmeralda.org/public-process) ## SB 684, 1211 ![[Pasted image 20251012184929.png]] - 1211: With this law you can now build an equal number of ADUs to existing units. So a duplex can get 2 ADUs, a triplex can get 3 new ADUs and a quadplex can get 4 new ADUs. Up to 8 ADUs! And you can do this on parking spaces without replacing them. - [[The Solaris Strategy]] - [[Develop coliving, exit to cohousing]] - [[Buying multifamily and selling TICs is a 35 percent arbitrage opportunity]] ## Changelog ### [[2025-10-13]] "Unplanned interactions catalyze growth and connection."