Jay Matthews

@jaymatthews

Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission

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"Our ability to engage with geographical science will determine our future."

Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World

The example of how we already participate in the gift economy is given with the service berry:

Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Network effect: occurs when a product or service becomes more valuable to users as more people use it (also known as: demand-side economies of scale)

create barriers to exit for existing users and barriers to entry for new companies

protect software companies from competitors eating away at their margins

can help create or tip winner-take-all

Future • All about Network Effects

But I don’t hate writing, and I don’t think most writers do either. They hate that an art form that’s all about noticing and feeling has been turned into just another hustle job full of quotas and shame.

Daniel Southwell • The Art of Writing a Novel Slowly

Platform: network of users and developers; multi-sided feedback loop between those users, developers, and platform itself creates flywheel effect increasing value for each of those groups. Network that can be programmed, customized, and extended by outside users. (often meets needs and creates niches not defined by original developers at the... See more

Future • All about Network Effects

Because desire is to own the wanting. That’s one way of looking at it. And in order to own something, there needs to be a sovereign self that is free to choose and, of course, feels worthy of wanting and feels worthy of receiving. That’s why desire is so intimately connected with a sense of self-worth.