Gillian Morris is a technologist, Substacker, and author, based in New York City.

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(00:00) Born in NYC, Immigrant Roots and Family Story

(02:45) Paris Bell Tower Life, Dumpster Diving, and Soup Kitchens

(05:20) Letting Go of the Opera Dream and Becoming a Patron of the Arts

(08:10) Regression to the Mean: Choosing Government as the Path of Least Resistance

(10:40) Solo Travel at 18 and Wonderfully Chill Parents

(13:30) Curiosity About Other Cultures and Searching for True Passion

(16:05) Many Models of Success and the Idea of Inner Vitality

(19:00) Learning to Code and Discovering Travel Tech as Ikigai

(22:10) Building Hit List and Hacking Cheap Flights for Friends

(25:40) Watching Users Join and a Life Thesis About Travel and Human Connection

(29:15) Pandemic Collapse, 95% Revenue Drop, and Mother’s Cancer Diagnosis

(32:30) Caregiving, Clubhouse, and the First Communal Living Essay

(36:05) From Side Blog to Supernuclear and a Growing Communal Living Movement

(39:30) What Communal Living Really Is and Why Commercial Co-Living Misses the Point

(43:10) Vetting Housemates, Moving Lightly, and Not Being Owned by Your Stuff

(46:20) Communal Living, American Isolation, and the Male Loneliness Problem

(50:10) Tribes, Villages, and Having Many “Significant Others”

(53:40) First Steps: Brunches, Neighbor Experiments, and Rebellious Community-Building