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The Effort Paradox You have to put in more effort to make something appear effortless. Effortless, elegant performances are often the result of a large volume of effortful, gritty practice. Small things become big things. Simple is not simple.

The problem with niche strategy, in a nutshell, is that it's a reliable destroyer of the human spirit. It's built on the assumption that we can segment ourselves, and turn one static aspect of the self into an economic engine that makes the rest of our life feel how we wish it'd feel. It's a nice idea in theory, but after everything I've experience

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"Builder communities" that are oriented around an activity? (making open source software, playing Minecraft, choreographing dance routines, etc) Getting to know ppl by doing something alongside them is often better than milling around and talking. This was true of offline communities already, but can we now use that as a design principle for online... See more

a high price point is a good spam prevention feature, but not a cure-all for community quality. People will start to flock more to invite-only, meritocratic groups vs. pay-to-play drops as soon as we’re in a non-hysterical market environment.

For example last week I gave ten points to our colleague Nadine, because I think she’s driving some projects excellently. At the beginning of the month, you get 100 points and if you don’t use them they’ll be gone by the end of the month at which point you get topped up with new points. So every month you can give 100 points to team members. It’s 1... See more