REKKI was born in the kitchen. Our founders ran restaurants for over 10 years, and it was tough. So in 2016 they started building a mobile app to make the lives of chefs easier. Today REKKI connects thousands of restaurants across the world with local suppliers.
- Self-paced nature - what many have been quick to discount (due to the high failure rates of MOOCs in the last decade), is actually an important benefit to the millions of citizens with some college credit and no degree.
Unfortunately, metrics have an awfully hard time representing human goals. We humans are messy, fuzzy things, and often our goals cannot be reduced down to one or even a few quantifiable metrics.
Clarity is power. And I think too often people go into doing something without actually being clear of what are we trying to do here, why are we trying to do it, how will we measure success, and what's the first thing that we should really do?
It's ownership versus wage work. If you are paid for renting out your time, even lawyers and doctors, you can make some money, but you're not going to make the money gives you financial freedom. You're not going to have passive income where a business is earning for you while you are on that vacation.
Drawing on our knowledge of economic theory and game design, we argue for a reputation system design based on a pair of tokens—one for signaling reputation and the other for offering liquidity—which could serve as tangible representations of meaningful contributions.