For almost two weeks now, I've been thinking of Anthony Bourdain every day. I've been trying to work out some of the lessons he has taught me so far about community through his work. There are many, I've realized. But what I want to share with you today is how I think his work serves as a model for the type of creative work we do: gathering people.

We cannot create rigid, homogeneous spaces where everyone believes the same thing. That's not a community; that's a cult. But we do have to put a stake in the ground: For which issues do we need to raise our voice and take a stand?

We burn out because we lose all sense of ourselves. The shouts and demands and the subtle persuasion of our community members drowns out our voice. The business goals ignore what brought us to our work in the first place. We forget who we are.

Great community spaces create powerful recruiting engines.

30 tips and tricks from the founders of ProductHunt, Quibb, and The Fetch. These are the key learnings from the SFCMGR event on June 4. If you couldn't make it, here's what you missed.