Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.
Fun is the main thing. Because fun helps you transmit your message. You can only do that - transmit - when people are receptive.
If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.
That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.
That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.
I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.
A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.
When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.
A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.