Mo Shafieeha

Web3 will offer new and optimized ways to enable, recognize, and reward social capital. Due to its decentralized nature, proof-of-X will not be determined by a single centralized platform or middle-man but can be negotiated and defined differently by every bespoke community.

Something magical happens when you create a business for a customer base you intrinsically understand! Treating yourself as your first customer can save you marketing costs, make sure you start with a solid product offering, and much more. Creating a solution to a problem without worrying about how you’re going to sell and market it can allow you... See more

We need to think critically and understand things better, not less. Trying to reduce human systems to animal systems doesn't take into account how knowledge changes over time. In addition, it misses out on the most important element of those animal systems, being, doing, and interacting. At Nature of Work, we have developed a method of organization... See more

Management is a skill that is extremely difficult to evaluate. Certain domains are more challenging to evaluate than others.It is not easy to talk about management, but it is more challenging to implement. I have long empathized with Herbert Simon's quip that "management principles are simple, even trivial." Putting believability into practice... See more

Some ideas are true and correct when applied to higher levels of abstraction. However, ideas that might use to lower classes do not translate cleanly to high levels. Though human psychology rests on the complex interplay between neurons, neural network rules do not apply. On the other hand, the regulations that govern a market economy do not extend... See more

It probably gives you an idea of context discovery when doing organization design in a large corporation. To understand what might need to change and why Microsoft's CEO Steve Sinofsky had to go through 'three months of 100 meetings. Windows leadership had to balance incentives with the structure for the organizational change to be successful.... See more

And since we are on it, I can’t avoid remembering what Bong Joon-Ho, the director of Parasite, said about the Oscars:“The Oscars are not an international film festival. They’re very local. […] Once you overcome the one inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films”.

The cloud developer environment is expensive and heavy and cannot be used offline. It is severely affected by latency. The obvious answer is to move web development to the web, as Google Docs and Figma did for knowledge workers. As a result of WebAssembly's increasing maturity and new browser capabilities, the browser-as-operating-system continues... See more

Design is about empathy, accessibility, communication of ideas, and improving lives, regardless of context. Design trends come and go, so don't get caught up in the hype and remember that the way a product or service is used today may be entirely different in five or ten years.