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We’ve been told — and taught — that mediums are neutral and content is king. You can’t say anything about “television.” The question is whether you’re watching “The Kardashians” or “The Sopranos,” “Sesame Street” or “Paw Patrol.” To say you read “books” is to say nothing at all: Are you imbibing potboilers or histories of 18th-century Europe?... See more

Writer Steven Johnson does this in a single document he calls a “spark file”—every time he has an idea, he adds it to the file, and then he revisits the list every couple of months.

Since community members joined slowly and stuck around, there was a lot of trust and shared context in the group. Every community had a different way of working, so there was a fair amount of friction preventing users from jumping around or “surfing” from project to project.

Bottom-Up SaaS: ~100% is GOOD, ~120% is GREAT

Writing a document is easy. But sharing a document to get thoughts from my team has been hard. I’ve sent out the link over Slack, asked for feedback by a certain date, tried to monitor who’s opened it, pinged people to read it again, and maybe ended up with a handful of inline comments that don’t give me meaningful feedback.

Thanks to COVID-19, remote work has dwarfed its growth expectations and now pretty much every company is working remotely in the short term, but. many will keep this arrangement moving forward. Twitter, Facebook, Square, and many others have told their workers that they can stay working from home even after COVID-19 is over. This is going to cause... See more