Tony Bacigalupo

I thew a "super casual board game night"—find out what I learned.

As a curious explorer and potential future community leader, one of your first tasks is to scout your neighborhood.

Moving to Norwalk with my wife gave me a perfect chance to try an idea I'd been nurturing for many years: the New to Town Meetup.

We desperately need a Big Hairy Ambitious Goal to aim for when it comes to reversing the trend of growing social isolation. So long as that trend continues downward unabated, bad things are going to keep getting worse. More depression, more early mortality, more toxicity, more decline in healthy democracy.

The algorithms will be glad to feed you 1,461 days of outrage. But they’ll only take the attention you let them have.

Identifying good spots in my future new hometown was going to be a priority for me. Here's how we started from scratch, in a town we'd never been to before, and mapped out the potential gathering spaces.

The premise is dead simple: are you new to to town? Or, at least, do you feel new to town? Meet some of your neighbors and learn what's what at this free event, which happens to be hosted by the coolest cafe-slash-artisanal-shop-slash-gathering-space in town.