Peers Inc

Merit is sometimes based wholly on impersonal attributes, such as the precise location of your 3-D printer (for local manufacturing) or home Wi-Fi router (so someone can connect), how much processing capability you have on your server (for use by an organization such as SETI in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence), or whether you are avail

On one side of the collaboration, we have industrial strengths: companies, governments, and institutions (the “Inc”) that apply significant resources, talent, and money to simplify the complex, apply standards and consistency, deliver economies of scale, and create global brands. On the other side we have individual strengths: individuals and small

Most participants contribute very small amounts of time and earn little. This is a pattern of peer production we will explore in greater depth

Wherever the old city is working successfully … it is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance—not to a simple-minded prec

the Goldilocks principle: try, iterate, learn, adapt.

During the controlled kernel phase, when the founders are first piecing together the platform, they necessarily exert maximum control, both forcing the participation to go where they want (or hope) it will go and watching closely to understand how actual participation is unfolding. If you allow a large and still dispassionate group of people to wei

We persuaded close friends and employees to create complete personal profiles to fuel our start. But all too quickly we learned that we had vastly overbuilt the website.

Flexicurity combines flexible and reliable contractual arrangements with lifelong learning strategies and adequate social benefits, supporting the needs of both employers and employees.

The Bitcoin.org website explains how this is accomplished with Bitcoin:

don’t have an answer for how we can finance the volunteer coordinator outside of traditional financing mechanisms. I leave the problem unsolved.