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Squad Wealth
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- Squad culture is the antithesis of neoliberal individualism. Millennials are healing from decades of irony poisoning, rediscovering what it's like to have generative, exploratory relationships with one another.
from Other Internet by otherinter.net
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- Squad culture is downstream of squad space, and the digital places squads inhabit are only getting more advanced. The Discord can suddenly be on calls together. The Keybase can now use Git. The team toolkit defines its capabilities, and different platforms enable different modes of squad thought.
from Other Internet by otherinter.net
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Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging
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- Thankfully there’s a new kind of social unit emerging which may play a crucial role in helping us to overcome this mostly silent epidemic of loneliness and disconnection. It’s already showing up in a number of different flavours but the four versions I’ve been tracking most closely include Pods, Squads, Crews and Digital Gangs. And while each one h... See more
from Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging by Joe Lightfoot
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- many of us are drawn to these novel kinds of Small Group experience because we long for new kinds of friendship that transcend the categories of relationship currently on offer to us. We’re enticed and intrigued by the notion of a close group of people that are keen and eager to collectively experiment with:-Going psychologically deeper than the bo... See more
from Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging by Joe Lightfoot
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- In the future, the Other Internet also believes we won’t necessarily interact with money as individuals but as collective “wealth squads.” They talk about how fractionalization can create opportunities and group resilience that would previously have been impossible to achieve alone.
from Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work by Victoria Buchanan
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- I think we will gain the most learnings about the future of business and identity not from top-down corporate models of community management, but from friends, squads, and content creators starting groups and supporting the legitimate participation of community members in their ongoing development, finance, and governance.
from Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool by Toby Shorin
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