Emilie Kormienko

When you build a community, you create a social identity. The Social Identity Cycle consists of three stages: identification (person identifies with the community), participation (member takes action to participate in community), and validation (member rewarded for action). Remember to invest in diversity, equity, and inclusion from day one.

I can’t overemphasize the value of getting hands-on experience, combined with the time I’d previously spent on research.

Income share agreements (ISAs) align economic incentives in ways that encourage us to help others beyond our extended family, give people economic opportunity who don’t have it today, and free people from the shackles of debt.

An activation metric is a measure of how many actions a user takes to receive value out of a product. Essentially, it is what a user has to do before they get value from the product.

As Nassim Taleb wrote in Fooled by Randomness, “Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

Shared ownership of social tokens among community members contributes to long-term value alignment. It is just the beginning when it comes to experimenting with new ways of rewarding community members for their participation and empowering community members through governance.

When onboarding is designed correctly, it increases the likelihood of successful adoption, and can drive major growth and retention for your product.

The entire ecosystem of filmmaking blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels was recycling news and churning out half-baked content at a remarkable pace. From my perch atop the ecosystem, I could watch a story break, then spread from one aggregator to the next, eventually blanketing our entire corner of the internet in a thick smog of mediocrity.