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
Probably the most popular by number of installations is the VBB open source software (Virtual Bulletin Board)
Li Jin • Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software
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.
"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
Why efficient buildings are key to decarbonizing the power grid
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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."
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
The Future of Work Is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks | Future
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Future of Work and
Their stated mission is to "explore the future of human networks."