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Giving fast feedback is extremely useful, because the feedback recipient can still both remember the behavior, and even recreate some of their internal state.
Alex Turek • How to Criticize Coworkers
it’s utterly impossible for an algorithmic video-sharing website like TikTok to be a “town square” in the same sense that Twitter was supposed to be. There are all sorts of McLuhan-esque reasons for this: text as a medium is much faster to read, the reply and quote tweet function is what makes Twitter dialogic, its focus on text makes verbal wit th... See more
Erik Hoel • The internet's "town square" is dead
Through bottom-up assessments, ratification proposals and open discussion, this process helps create openness and transparency in determining compensation, unlike traditional human resources departments, which are opaque and more prone to bias.
DAOHaus • 🧪 Experiment in the HAUS: A new Contributor Compensation Program
Algorithms are not the reason why we buy things, no matter how good they are. Mimetic desire is.
Julian Lehr • What Shopify and Amazon can learn from Mimetic Theory
Refactoring is the process by which developers pay down technical debt: rewriting, simplifying, and otherwise cleaning up the codebase without changing its functionality. Much like editing a book versus writing it for the first time, refactoring code is often dreaded and unrewarding work. Since open source developers tend toward work that they find... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
The problem of filling out the buyers’ side of the marketplace is already sorted by the creator's audience.
Abhishek Maran • The Traditional Two-Sided Marketplace is Dead
We’ll have to answer two key questions. First, at what point does human agency give way to financial obligation? And second, at what point does a relationship become a transaction? There’s a fine line between investment and speculation, and between speculation and gambling. What happens when someone loses money on $ALEX or $SWIFT? Financializing li... See more
Rex Woodbury • What Happens When You’re the Investment
If these patterns sound familiar it is because they are the patterns of a failed response to a disruptive change. The idea that everything stays the same except for a few changes around the edges caused every incumbent to lose in the face of step-function change. The ideas in this essay might not be the best experiments to run and the suggestions m... See more