Organize month-long workations, during which employees can move to one city and work together, enabling serendipitous interaction and deep relationship building.
In 2019, Wired reported that 125,000 creators -- podcasters, YouTubers, musicians, webcomic artists, etc…-- had generated a combined 5 million monthly subscribers. At the end of that year Patreon announced that it had paid out $1 billion to its users since its inception, with $500 million amassed that year alone.
The spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti said his secret was simple: “I don’t mind what happens.” That needn’t mean not trying to make life better, for yourself or others. It just means not living each day anxiously braced to see if things work out as you hoped.
We’ve used recommendations to limit low-quality content from being widely viewed since 2011, when we built classifiers to identify videos that were racy or violent and prevented them from being recommended. Then in 2015, we noticed that sensationalistic tabloid content was appearing on homepages and took steps to demote it. A year later, we started... See more
We’re now sobering up to this awareness: the value of content. Entertaining, enlightening, and informing people is a valuable economic activity. This change in the zeitgeist broke this assumption that creative and quality content will flow into platforms without real incentives. We’re moving quickly from a world of free content to a world of paid c... See more