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2026 25

  1. New York Times feature on Radish
  2. How to host Lightning Talks
  3. How The Greenhouse set up its non-profit structure and got financed
  4. Podcast#02 Going Beyond the Nuclear Family with Gillian Morris
  5. The Life-Changing Decision You’re Not Prioritizing Enough
  6. Supernuclear Classifieds (#5)
  7. How to kill a community (before it even starts)
  8. The Half-Assed Potluck & other simple ways to host
  9. Case Study: Tamera
  10. [Repost] Meet Cheryl, your coliving nemesis
  11. What Popup Villages Teach Us About Permanent Ones (and Vice Versa)
  12. Update on the Radish Sale
  13. Case Study: The Bob House
  14. Case Study: Camphill Village Kimberton Hills
  15. A model for building co-housing at scale in Mexico City
  16. Building a Space People Never Want to Leave
  17. Going ‘Post-Communal’
  18. Homeworthy tours Gillian's house
  19. Case Study: Tall Pine
  20. Abundance of the commons
  21. [Repost] Babies @ Radish: The early review
  22. Radish is officially for sale
  23. Connecting With: Gillian Morris
  24. How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps
  25. Case Study: Agape

2025 34

  1. Case Study: The Old Knitting Factory
  2. Dear SoCal readers: Live Near Friends is now in LA
  3. Some news: We’re selling Radish next year
  4. Case Study: Wild Seeds Ranch
  5. Signs you might live in a cult
  6. Traveling neighborhoods
  7. Who are you?
  8. Every Village Needs a Jester
  9. Case Study: life at Selgars
  10. Dispatches from the commune
  11. Supernuclear Classifieds (#4)
  12. Case Study: K9 Coliving
  13. On Coliving and Tiny Apartments
  14. 6 Qualities to look for in housemates (that go beyond splitting rent)
  15. Turning Neighborhoods into Communities
  16. Supernuclear Classifieds #3
  17. The case for having roommates (even when you can afford to live alone)
  18. How (and why) to do pop-up communes
  19. Beyond Burnout
  20. The power and beauty of incrementalism
  21. Case Study: The Dhamma Pad
  22. Supernuclear Classifieds #2
  23. Why is it so hard to get families to live in communities?
  24. Case Study: Mars College
  25. How to Start a School With Your Friends
  26. Case Study: The Chalet and the Cottage
  27. A re-introduction to Supernuclear
  28. Case Study: Edge Esmeralda
  29. Does your friend next door need to be your *best* friend?
  30. Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood
  31. Case Study: Open Field Co-Living
  32. Can you date your roommate?
  33. [Cringe alert] An 1hr interview with me and my partner
  34. The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California

2024 23

  1. Video tour of our Radish "friend compound"
  2. Accepting proposals - A unique coliving opportunity (Tempe, Arizona)
  3. How to buy a duplex (or triplex)
  4. Building neighborhood communities
  5. Case Study: Parrot Bungalows
  6. Case Study: merlins place
  7. Why it's worth having a community Wiki
  8. Finding the right fit
  9. Case Study: Picklebric
  10. How to live near friends - Live E-Seminar w/ Phil
  11. Harnessing Collective Potential
  12. What we learned from a 3-month co-living experiment
  13. The nuts and bolts of moving into a new community house
  14. Come work at LiveNearFriends?
  15. Introducing Supernuclear Classifieds
  16. Case Study: Red Door TV
  17. Supernuclear Book Review: Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
  18. Building a home wherever I roam
  19. Tom Sawyer your way through life
  20. Case Study: Windhover
  21. Case Study: Template House
  22. Reducing Food Waste in Community: The Wall of Leftovers & The Fridge List
  23. Dreamship shares their Co-Ownership LLC Agreement

2023 22

  1. Radish in Apartment Therapy
  2. Case Study: the rise and fall of the Cotty/BarBAEdos Commune
  3. Case Study: The Palm on Deakin
  4. Case Study: Moos Coliving
  5. Case Study: Coliving with the Strahms, eight years and counting
  6. Case Study: Sage House
  7. The Beneficent Fairy of Friendliness! 🧚
  8. Contribute to Supernuclear (we'll pay you!)
  9. Case Study: Feÿtopia
  10. [Recording] How to live near friends: 6 models that work
  11. [Live Event] How to live near friends: w/ Phil & Priya (Wednesday 8/30 - 1pm PT /4pm ET)
  12. Announcing LiveNearFriends
  13. What the research says about living near friends
  14. Case study: The Village (San Francisco)
  15. Babies @ Radish: The early review
  16. How to find your first coliving experience
  17. Do you live <5 minute walk from your friends?
  18. The Pyramid of Coliving Needs
  19. 4 Do's and 3 Dont's on coliving space architecture/design
  20. [REGISTRATION LINK FIXED] Offer: Small-Group Coaching on how to co-buy
  21. Offer: Small-Group Coaching on how to co-buy
  22. Rules vs Principles

2022 12

  1. How much to charge your friends rent
  2. Dunbar's Number & Community Size
  3. Making decisions efficiently: fist to five
  4. Connecting a multi-unit home to facilitate community living
  5. Case Study: Whale House (Hawaii)
  6. The Radish FriendLLC Model Explained
  7. Directory of coliving directories
  8. Case Study: the story of Postel
  9. Making Money Move(s)
  10. Common misconceptions about coliving
  11. How to co-buy a vacation home with friends Part 2 - Legal and financial structures
  12. How to co-buy a vacation home with friends - Part 1

2021 16

  1. Be a co-buying TV star?
  2. The narcissism of small differences
  3. Really, we're not a cult
  4. Building coliving in California just got easier
  5. Webinar on co-buying property w/ friends
  6. 4 coliving business ideas
  7. The Obvious Truth
  8. The New Yorker dives deep into coliving
  9. 11 strategies for keeping your coliving community clean
  10. Case Study: the story of Clarens Commons
  11. Case Study: the story of Ski Cult
  12. Leases, subleases, and master tenancy, oh my!
  13. Opt-in exclusivity
  14. News x2 for people interested in co-buying property with friends
  15. Why not now?
  16. OSOs & Radish's brush with fame

2020 20

  1. Case Study: the story of Bauhaus
  2. Case study: The story of Rabbithole
  3. The State of Supernuclear
  4. Supernuclear goes internet surfing
  5. A low-risk way to see if coliving is right for you
  6. 5 ways to get a loan when co-buying
  7. Group decision-making in coliving
  8. Co-buying property with friends
  9. The 9 types of people you find in coliving
  10. Managing finances in a coliving house
  11. Phil's webinar on the co-buying process (July 28 5pm PT)
  12. Meet Cheryl: Your coliving nemesis
  13. Fairness is overrated and bragging is underrated
  14. Rent vs Buy vs Build
  15. Case Study: the story of Gramercy House
  16. Case study: The story of Radish
  17. Case study: The story of RGB
  18. The Supernuclear Directory
  19. Going supernuclear
  20. Introducing Supernuclear: A guide to Coliving