Gaia Soykok

As Jone L. Pearce, associate professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of California at Irvine, wrote in “Why Merit Pay Doesn’t Work: Implications from Organization Theory,” pay for performance actually “impedes the ability of managers to manage.”

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as well as the founder, the product manager can get technical and that is a problem. Should not delve into how to build, focusing on the customers and the market.

Anther High leverage tasks are PM getting strategy right. We procrastinate on L tasks because we know that they are leverage tasks. We are shy to start because they do not know whether they can get it right.

The zen of compensation: for the type I people, compensate them fairly and more than average and take the money of the table.

You can not design think a DAO.  

Most execution problems in high-performing teams are because of a lack of strategy or culture misalignment. it is rarely an only execution problem like infrastructure or skills gap.

We call this richer, pluralistic ecosystem “Decentralized Society” (DeSoc)—a co-determined sociality, where Souls and communities come together bottom-up, as emergent properties of each other to co-create plural network goods and intelligences, at a range of scales. Key to this sociality is decomposable property rights and enhanced governance... See more