Recently, I wrote an article about communities and the barriers we unknowingly place in front of people who want to join them. At the time, I was thinking about fandoms, workplaces, hobbies, and the countless spaces where people gather around a shared interest. The article centered on a simple idea: communities grow when they act as gateways rather than gatekeepers. When they help people find their place rather than forcing them to prove they deserve one. Since then, that ide

One of the things I have found myself thinking about most since attending my first Formula 1 race weekend is not the racing itself. That probably sounds strange. After all, when people return from a Grand Prix, they tend to talk about the cars, the overtakes, the strategy calls, or the championship implications. Those are the obvious memories, the ones that naturally find their way into conversations afterwards. Yet when I look back on the experience, my mind keeps returning