Gaia Soykok

Sawyer Effect as “practices that can either turn play into work or work into play,” after Tom Sawyer, who tricked his friends into painting a fence for him by convincing them it was fun

every autonomous unit in the organization, e.g., wholly owned subsidiaries, can design a performance-based reward system according

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

Any intrinsic reward should be unexpected and offered only after the task is complete. in other words where if then rewards are a mistake, shift to now that rewards.

The process of writing is about reminding, learning and figuring out. it is mostly for the writer first.

The founder is authentic to themselves. the company is almost in their image, and they have not tried to change it.

People who do exceptional work may be glad to be paid and even more glad to be well paid, but they do not work to collect a paycheck. They work because they love what they do.

Workers have varying self-worth and needs for extrinsic and intrinsic rewards.

Gokul thinks if you want to hire best-of-class PMs, go to best-of-class companies and hire from them rather than a person.