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“The bar for freemium models at the time was Skype, which converted about 7% of their users to pay at least something—maybe a dollar. We hit that in a few months, but it just continued from there. Past 10%, 15%, 20%—and we realized that we had stumbled on what might just be the most effective freemium model the world had ever seen.”—Gustav Söderstr... See more

People like to talk about how media needs new business models. The business models are perfectly fine. People will either pay for the content themselves or their attention will be monetized with advertising. Those are fundamentally good business models.

In this essay, we’ve touched upon the emergence of the field of Sustainable UX. It's a subject-matter that is still in its infancy. Most people have yet to realize that software can pollute our planet. A dirty factory chimney or a polluted car is easy to label as unsustainable. But the intangible nature of software makes pollution too abstract to g... See more

1) How to lower the barrier to meaningful contribution: Because contributions to DAOs can come from anywhere, tools that qualify and quantify different types of contributions (e.g. bounties, DAO-specific metrics) can be used to create a shared understanding of priorities of how one can expect to be rewarded for different levels of participation. In... See more