Creating a Laboratory for Work 🧪
And maybe there’s a way to put consulting inside this research frame also? Ben Pieratt’s live pre-brand experiments are intriguing as as a new model of funding work and working in public.
Tom Critchlow • Reimagining the Research Lab
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Fractal experimentation. Run experiments with small groups of people to beta-test processes. Gather feedback and iterate.
Steph Alinsug • A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu…
Keely Adler added
Towards a body of work.
What is it supposed to speak to? It should be, I hope, beyond the scope of scaling one app. It should be, I hope, in constant dialogue of bridging past, present, and future.
I think, at least what I’ve been meditating on for the past 7 months, is that we have to look towards designing an organization that allows the ability ... See more
What is it supposed to speak to? It should be, I hope, beyond the scope of scaling one app. It should be, I hope, in constant dialogue of bridging past, present, and future.
I think, at least what I’ve been meditating on for the past 7 months, is that we have to look towards designing an organization that allows the ability ... See more
Reggie James • Towards a Body of Work (1)
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Make things. Operating in a space with a lot of uncertainty is a very different experience to learning something.
patrickcollison.com • Advice · Patrick Collison
Keely Adler added
8:05 - Building a public presence. Learning something. And then turning around and sharing that is learning in public. Essentially blogging got Shawn the job he has today… And also helped him transition from a front-end career to back-end. Became known for this essay: https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/
Adam Wiggins • Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53
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Life is short. Do whatever you can’t stop thinking about. Documenting your findings in public (regardless of outcomes!) is a worthy contribution to society, full stop. If you’re doing something new, and you care about understanding the problem, people will pay attention. What’s more, they’ll take your ideas and make them better than you’d ever imag
... See morenadia.xyz • The Independent Researcher
Jonathan Simcoe added
From the tech startup world, here is an example of karma and re-birth in microcosm, well nanocosm:
The biggest thing for me is that I never want to have to solve the same problem twice, ever.... See more
... Defaulting to putting them in public, partly it’s sort of an insurance scheme.
I’ve worked for companies where I did everything in private. And then I le
Karma as ancient progress studies
Alex Dobrenko added
The modern Idea Machine better reflects how people self-organize today. They are decentralized, more closely intertwined with public dialogue, and work symbiotically with a community that anyone can join: many individual nodes operating in a loosely-organized network, instead of a monolithic organization.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
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