"Part-time employees don’t work. Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day. If you’re deciding whether to bring someone on board, the decision is binary. Ken Kesey was right: you’re either on the bus or off the bus."
On the crypto side, we should watch to see whether new initiatives:-Are able to generate and distribute funding for science work;-Produce research that is recognized by the wider science community;-Generate uncapped rewards (financially or otherwise) for participating scientists
Publishers still perform other functions in selecting, editing, and marketing work (dozens of people besides me have worked to improve this book, for example), but they no longer form the barrier between private and public writing.