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The Rise of Soho House Part I: Highly Public Exclusivity and The New Aristocrats
How Soho House rode the rails of new celebrity & status voyeurism all the way to an IPO
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David Litwak
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Maxwell Fall Applications Are Officially OPEN!
Kicking off our membership drive!
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David Litwak
We Signed A Lease In Tribeca . . .
. . . to build a fully participatory social club where you pour your own drinks and can cook in the kitchen.
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David Litwak
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SoulCycle & Mistaking Exclusivity for Community (Cafe Society Quick Bite #1)
Exclusivity Doesn't Scale & Toxic Communities
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David Litwak
Maxwell Tribeca -- A City Social Campus
A club that competes on personalities, not amenities.
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David Litwak
Building the Scaffolding of Contribution
Setting member participation up for success
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David Litwak
The Loneliness Epidemic: Bundling & Unbundling Community
How to move forward by going back
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David Litwak
The Tinder Swindler, Inventing Anna & Status Peacocking
The recent high society cons expose our fake social life and explain why so many people are opting out.
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David Litwak
Welcome to Cafe Society
An Anthropological Look At Community & Society
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David Litwak
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Bored Ape Yacht Club, Comic Con & Mistaking Identity Expression for Community Formation
NFTs are necessary but not sufficient for community, and the more likely destinies of PFP collections are media companies or fashion brands.
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David Litwak
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Soho House of Cards (Part II) - Bundling Moments of Highly Public Exclusivity
Annabel's urinals, Winnie The Pooh and I'm-Better-Than-You As A Service -- how Soho House is all the calories and none of the nutrition.
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David Litwak
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The Mid-twenties Loneliness Realization
What happens when the invites to house parties and pregames dry up
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David Litwak
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