Emilie Kormienko

On getting promoted:  Takeaways:  Showing significant impact on the business — by far the most common thing to get right; U nlike the mini-CEO label PMs often get, in reality they must keep their external stakeholders onboard to be successful;  Keeping their team and manager happy — less of a priority at most companies, but as you’ll see below,... See more

The stereotypical example of a bottom-up organization is a slime mold. A number of different independent actors make individual decisions, leading to complex emergent behavior in the colony.

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Remember that the problem is rarely about someone begin a villain. It's almost always the system. When you find someone that's frustrating you, breathe. Assume they're trying to help you avoid a cliff you can't see or are under hidden constraints. Be curious, empathetic, and seek to understand.

The community life cycle goes through the seed phase (beginnings of the community where you design and craft the experience), growth phase (community starts to organically grow and engage), maturity (the community becomes well-established), and pollination (the community breaks down into subcommunities).

Smartphones were inherently social, too, unlike the desktop web. Apps could tap into a smartphone’s address book for a ready-made social graph; they could import photos from a user’s camera roll, or easily grab the user’s coordinates for location-based networking.

All community experiences are either synchronous or asynchronous – most great communities have a combination of both. When your members can experience your community in a consistent, repetitive way, it will make it easier for them to develop a habit of coming back. Set rituals and be repetitive.

Pure discovery learning, the idea that children can teach themselves, is one of many educational myths that have been debunked but still remain curiously popular.