Most community builders make the same mistake. They center everything around themselves. That works for content. Audiences follow you, your face, your takes, your energy. You move them, they go. You go quiet, they scatter. Community and tribes don’t work that way. @sethgodin put it plainly: “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.” Notice the order. The leader is the bridge, not the destination. The idea is. Your job isn’t to be the center. Your job is to give people something bigger than you to gather around, a belief, a mission, a standard. Call it a constitution. Call it culture. Call it values. @balajis took this further. He argues that the most powerful communities organize around a shared belief, a “One Commandment” ...