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2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

It’s our inability to let go of our agenda to get people to buy that turns people off and has marketing and sales feel gross. Sales pressure is predom

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And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a

The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little in

This is the part most debates about tech and democracy miss. The real question is whether the underlying architecture creates incentives that concentr

And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a

A room is not just a data structure. The moment you draw a boundary around a social space and say “these people are in, these are the rules,” you have

People withdrew into smaller spaces where trust could once again be accumulated rather than continuously spent. Communities became increasingly bounde

With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news — written by local residents — for rural counties

We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm

The biggest exceptions are local news startups, which are building trust, evolving business models for journalism, and building far more representativ

The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little in

We’re gardeners, and we don’t want these traditions to die off. Our kids are the seedlings. I’m doing the programming for the young people: We put a l

A room is not just a data structure. The moment you draw a boundary around a social space and say “these people are in, these are the rules,” you have

There is access governance, deciding who gets in and proving they are who they say they are, and there is behaviour governance, dealing with what peop

The model Miller reached for is the I-9 employment form, with its menu of acceptable documents, one from column A or one from column B together with o

The model Miller reached for is the I-9 employment form, with its menu of acceptable documents, one from column A or one from column B together with o

Once you recognize yourself as part of the river, now you realize you’re responsible for the river as a whole.”

Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value

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We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm

How ELLE France Boosted Subscriptions by Tailoring Paywalls to Reader Context

Social media differs from note-taking apps. Users provide content and interaction for free. "Why should I pay when I'm the one creating value?" Fair q

Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel

Don't Surrender to the Machine Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of Nest, partner at Build Collective, interviewed by @lennysan

And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a

Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel

But I don’t think platform companies should—or can—act as the governance layer of our online lives. In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board

Decentralized networks are harder to infiltrate and harder to destroy. This movement is not leaderless, but leaderful, and there are no few specific p

The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together.

Danny O’Brien, a Senior Fellow at the Filecoin Foundation, has argued that decentralization itself should never be the “terminal value” we pursue—it’s

The imperfections you’re tempted to fix might prove to be what make the work great.

MetaFilter Discussion on Balancing Assertiveness and Politeness Online

"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har