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It's much easier to start a DAO than to sustain one. We believe that Odyssey will endure due to our focus, momentum, and values.

While social platforms are proving effective at pressure testing and gauging the customer response for new ideas, sometimes the general public isn’t the best curator for what’s next. It’s not just about the critical mass (how many people like something), it’s also about the credible mass ( who likes something). As algorithms mature, I suspect socia... See more

The role of managers, for example, is a coordination mechanism to ensure people are broadly aligned and doing what they’re supposed to.

I never chatted with Bezos about this, so I don't know if it was an explicit strategy on his part, but one of his great strengths as a communicator was the ability to encode the most important strategies for Amazon in very concise and memorable forms.

Take one example "Day 1." I don't know when he first said this to the company, but it was repeated

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making hard things seem fun is a much better strategy than making hard things seem important

The role of curation has been eliminated as the majority of value is captured by the platforms so it is  no longer economically viable. With fewer and weaker intermediaries, we also reduce the amount of independent points  of views or windows to the world.