Jacob Borgeson
@jacobborgeson
A product person looking to make the world a better place by applying technology to big challenges - and then building really strong communities to galvanize those solutions.
Jacob Borgeson
Good Good Good: News To Help You Feel Hopeful & Do Good
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Power to the People and Get Good
not just feel good news, real good news
There are actually about a dozen platforms designed to fill this need - and they make up about a $2-3B annual market for brand community platforms today. Community-building is nearly as old as the internet, and so much has been developed since the advent of message boards and forums.
Li Jin • Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software
"First, we need to explain the shortcomings of existing earning models. Traditional corporate employment is rapidly becoming outdated as a means for coordinating activity in the Information Age — we already see this in the emergence of alternative forms of earning such as influencers, contractors, creators, gig economy participants, and more. These... See more
future.a16z.com • The Future of Work Is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks | Future
Season 1 is about the intersection of communities with various other disciplines: Data science, AI, Poverty, Loneliness, Business, and more.
Bill Johnston • Cohere Podcast
Don’t apologize for being nervous, for caring, for not having 200 practice runs under your belt. The audience is offering you a tiny slice of time and attention. You cared enough to show up, here we go.
Season 3 (current) is now exploring the metaverse, NFT, DAO, crypto and tokenization.
Bill Johnston • Cohere Podcast
A pretty comprehensive, simple, and beautiful explanation of web3 and the technologies that are enabling it with compelling use of data and charts to illustrate why it matters and the potential.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • State of Crypto
"By building a peer-to-peer overlay on top of git, we find not only a performant solution, but one that is better adapted for code collaboration. Issues, comments and reviews become local artifacts that are cryptographically signed and interacted with offline."
Mirror • Welcome to The Block Pro - The Block Pro
I’d like to keep my family together and raise my boys into adults who are “publicly useful and privately happy.” Anything else is gravy.