To state the obvious, attribution matters to creators of all kinds — scientists, writers, YouTube stars, etc — for the same reason. The better they can capture the value they created in the past, the more value they can create in the future.
Zillow has gone from a mostly automated world where an agent can pay the company without a single human getting involved, to one in which they now must manage an army of people who inspect, buy, repair, and sell homes.
Twitter gamifies communication by offering immediate, vivid, and quantified evaluations of one’s conversational success. Twitter offers us points for discourse; it scores our communication. And these game-like features are responsible for much of Twitter’s psychological wallop. Twitter is addictive, in part, because it feels so good to ... See more
There's been a trend to focus on skills over hiring someone because they attended a prestigious school or worked at a great company. I appreciate the meritocratic intention behind this: those who can succeed will succeed.
Earning is way more powerful than getting likes. If those two elements can be interwoven into the fabric of a network, it will mean people can make money from their time in new ways. Today, the bluntest tool in social is where you build an audience and then try to sell to it. We are going to see so many new experiments around paying people for cont... See more
Web3 is about the distribution of power and resources, not their accumulation. What drives the success of Web3 is the community because communication between its members is key for organizing themselves towards achieving a common purpose.