Longest Voyage is Jamie Crisman's home for notes, bad writing, and randomly updated blog: Did you ever have the experience of discovering something you enjoy. Maybe you shared it with some friends. In that space there’s a small community gathering around something they value and enjoy. It might just be among friends, but then it ends up being contagious. More people become interested in the thing. It spreads like fire. The community surrounding that thing grows and until it has life of its own. Sometimes the thing itself gets changed by this.