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
- 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.
The life we call “normal” isn’t normal at all. A spouse and kids, a mortgage, a 9-to-5 job... who said that was life? What’s so great about working in a factory or a cubicle? You and I, who are artists and entrepreneurs, live a life that’s closer to natural, if you ask me. We migrate, too. We follow the muse instead of the sun.
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All addictions share,from Turning Pro – by Steven Pressfield by Steven Pressfield
CO2 levels are the highest in human history, and the challenge to achieve net zero emissions is the greatest we have ever faced, yet there are hopeful signs that renewable energy has become the most cost-effective energy source,
from Presentations — Nat Bullard by Nathaniel Bullard
- 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.
from State of Crypto by Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)
- "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."
from Welcome to The Block Pro - The Block Pro by Mirror
- "In a world where nearly all software relies on open source code, maintaining the resilience and health of the free and open source ecosystem is more important than ever. That's why we believe that dependence on centrally hosted platforms and corporations for the distribution of critical open source infrastructure is unsustainable. Reliance on such... See more
from Welcome to The Block Pro - The Block Pro by Mirror
- I've always thought it would be interesting for someone to build blockchain and ownership tokens into the very structure of a community platform. It wouldn't be too complex - simply replacing the gamification engine (used to give people ranks and points based on quality and quantity of participation) with a tokenization engine. Everything else - fo... See more
from Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software by Li Jin
- Probably the most popular by number of installations is the VBB open source software (Virtual Bulletin Board)
from Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software by Li Jin
- - Khoros (fka Lithium) - Samsung, Sephora, Microsoft, Airbnb, Powerschool, eBay, Etsy - Higher Logic (Acq. Vanilla Forums) - Tesla, Electronic Arts, and a lot of nonprofits. They also have good onboarding - Salesforce Experience Cloud - Farmers Insurance (Agents), UC BerkeleyAnd there are a few new entrants that might be inter... See more
from Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software by Li Jin