Gaia Soykok

include flexible working hours and work from home

Google strategy is that anything less than 100M they do not pursue because their scale is a billion scales. Google because of that missed out on opportunities.

Behaviorist theory, derived from work with laboratory animals, is indirectly responsible for such programs as piece-work pay for factory workers, stock options for top executives, special privileges accorded to Employees of the Month, and commissions for salespeople

There are multiple paths to greatness.square design, google engineering, FB growth, and Doordash are operationally focused.

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

Great positioning will feel obvious. "Of course, that is what it is. What else could it be? " feeling.

His analysis, “Financial Incentives,” published in 1986, revealed that 16, or 57%, of the studies found a positive effect on performance. However, all of the performance measures were quantitative in nature: a good job consisted of producing more of something or doing it faster.

This essay was written 14 years ago, but the concepts presented are just as relevant today as they were then and are particularly important as we try to figure out what to do with all the very intractable conflicts that are facing us