Ten doors into the same house.
Every one of these decides whether a community lasts. Start wherever your question is.
Community Governance
Who decides what, within which limits, and who may stop it — the structure that decides whether the rest survives.
11 articles
Conflict & Repair
The five conflicts that actually recur, the power nobody voted for, and the four questions a repair process has to answer.
3 articles
Daily Life in Community
A week, concretely — meals, work, meetings, noise, and the privacy nobody warns you about.
4 articles-
Decision Methods
Six ways a group can decide, what each one actually produces, and why no community that lasts uses only one.
8 articles 
Intentional Communities
What these places are, the forms they take, what they ask of you, and how to tell them apart.
7 articles
Legal Structures & Ownership
The four shells a community can be held in, what you would actually own, and whether a lender will touch it.
5 articles
Membership & Belonging
How people join, how they are turned down, and how they leave — the process that protects the joiner as much as the community.
3 articles
Money & the Community Economy
What a community shares financially, what it does not, and the three numbers that decide whether you can afford it.
4 articles-
Proposals & Ratification
How a decision travels from a written proposal to something in force — and the phases most groups skip without noticing.
5 articles 
Resilience & Why Communities Fail
Where the two different "90% fail" figures come from, the six patterns that recur, and the endings that are not failures.
3 articles
