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'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 -... See more
Li Jin • Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software
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,
Nathaniel Bullard • Presentations — Nat Bullard
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.
3 Seasons of pods largely on communities - the art, science, and related topics of building and running communities.
Bill Johnston • Cohere Podcast
"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 Traditional corporate employment is rapidly becoming outdated as a means for coordinating activity in the Information Age — we already see this in the emergence of alternative forms of earning such as influencers,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
Sustainability & Climate Change
"Compared to the business-as-usual scenario, that would shave more than one-third off the cost of decarbonizing the country’s power supply."