🤓 User research for consumer tech startups
đź§ Innovation in social systems
When the office is a place, there is a physical connection to colleagues. When the office becomes a group chat punctuated by Zoom all-hands meetings, switching jobs is practically as easy as logging out of one Slack account and logging into another.
🚀 @shopthruxyz partnered with @iiiitsandrea’s @thesnaxshot and a number of the brands in their community to release the first set of Snicketts to the world!
Wait, what are Snicketts?
They’re beautiful, powerful, digital passes that unlock perks from businesses and... See more
Four questions to ask about a platform (web2 or web3)1. Why do people come?2. Why do people stay?3. Why do people share?4. Why do people pay?It’s okay if people come for tokens, but it shouldn’t be the (only) reason that they stay.
Instead of empowering communities that most suffered under urban renewal, the local-review process has again privileged wealthier people who routinely block new projects, and many of the projects that do get built are in poorer areas.
Banks and investors tend to be uncertain about lending to carbon-removal companies that want to build a facility to test their ideas, Ransohoff said. But with an offtake agreement from Frontier, a carbon-removal start-up can prove to a bank that it will have a customer once the facility is up and running.
If office occupancy never recovers, downtown areas will experience an extended ice age. Emptier offices will mean fewer lunches at downtown restaurants, fewer happy hours, fewer window shoppers, fewer subway and bus trips, and less work for cleaning, security, and maintenance services. This means weaker downtown economies and less taxable income... See more