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Check Your Pulse #55
We are living through the emergence of a new business category that doesn’t even have a name yet, but which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: online communities at the intersection of content curation and knowledge management.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
Love this from Jesse Beyroutey : We’ve found that the primary source for a company’s dominance is whether it designs its product and business model to be perfectly aligned with its customers’ interests. A great test of alignment is whether the company benefits or suffers from increased transparency.
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What’s amazing is how chronological feeds — essentially accidental experiments of digital architecture — have rewired our brains. In the feed, everything is fleeting. This design property means you’re either always on and connected, or you’re off and wondering if you’re missing something important.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
The Internet offers us the first major opportunity to introduce new, digitally-native information architectures that improve our understanding of the world through added context and relation.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
the goal is not to consume more information. The goal is to think better, so we can achieve our goals.
sariazout.substack.com • Check Your Pulse #55
understanding knowledge translates to real-world impact, it’s never a status endeavor.
The potential to build community-curated knowledge networks remains largely untapped. There are reasons to be optimistic; the economic feasibility of paid communities, a renewed interest in curation, a slow move away from big social, and an improved understanding of platform incentives. All combined, this will lead to communities that are more sust... See more
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
In short, the architecture of digital platforms has made us obsessive documenters and consumers of the present, yet largely indifferent to the archives we create.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
We consume information recreationally, not as a way to achieve our goals.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
The past few years have seen the rise of many knowledge management tools, online communities, and curation businesses. But what’s interesting is how these categories are remixing into new combinations of content, community, and software.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
Three intersecting problems remain unsolved: