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MONEY, AS IT turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social norms are not only cheaper, but often more effective as well
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
A single unconnected node isn't as resilient as a diverse, interconnected, network. The internet gives indie entrepreneurs the infrastructure needed to generate the kind of network effects that can compete at scale with companies like Amazon.
Justin Jackson • Main Street fights back
A lot has been written about how the internet radicalizes people. But the same dynamics that turn a slightly lonely young man into a seething misogynist—recommendation algorithms; social contexts that concentrate and intensify discourse—are also the dynamics that turn a young person who “likes reading” into someone who spends a year reading Proust,... See more
Celine Nguyen • in praise of writing on the internet
harness parasocial dynamics for good.
$30 billion → The amount of ad revenue YouTube has paid out to creators in the last three years
Samir Chaudry • Big Time
We are treating the worst dynamics of today’s online ecosystem as problems of speech in the new technological environment, rather than challenges of curation and network organization.
Renée DiResta • How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds
How many people would reach out and wonder (or complain) if you didn’t send out that next email blast? That’s a metric worth measuring and increasing.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To…
Looking at the landscape of open source software today, I note two things. First, successful open source platforms tend to be partnered with caretaker organizations. Wikipedia has the Wikimedia Foundation, Linux has the constellation of organizations around the Linux Foundation, and Kubernetes has the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Second, open... See more