Questions For Managing Up & Sideways25. Do I Know What’s Important To My Boss Right Now?26. What Is My Team Being Paid To Do?27. If The Business Were A Person, Would They Significantly Benefit From My Organization’s Priorities And Efforts?28. What Have I Been Hesitating To Share, Create Or Take Action On?29. What Does The Person On The Other En... See more

Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, ... See more

In this scenario, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is formed for a particular street or business district. All participants in the fair ‘zone’ are awarded tokens by proving that they’re residents of the community (ie. a real address, or some other verification, a certain number per adult, a certain number per kid). Everybody automatica... See more

Too many people listen to self-help podcasts to soothe themselves instead of taking what they learned and putting it into action

It’s difficult to describe how different the pre-turbocharged algorithmically determined feed internet felt compared to today’s hyper-accelerated information environment. Back then forums felt like cozy rural communes, today’s social media driven environment is like the urban jungle. To the extent that the feed algorithm is accurate, it feels merit... See more

When every DAO tool is competing over the same handful of DAOs, you need a distribution advantage. One of my favorite approaches is to start by providing services to different DAOs so you can develop expertise in a specific domain, build relationships with core teams, and eventually productize your service. A great example is Llama DAO... They... See more

When we first went to write this section, Stephen started to write about how obvious Clubhouse was in retrospect. But then when pressed by Alexey, Stephen realized that while live audio on an app might be obvious, the other aspects of Clubhouse’s implementation—rooms, microphone privileges, hand-raising combined with elevation to the stage, innovat... See more

Permanently divorcing physical location from economic opportunity gives us a real shot at radically expanding the number of good jobs in the world while also dramatically improving quality of life for millions, or billions, of people. We may, at long last, shatter the geographic lottery, opening up opportunity to countless people who weren’t lucky ... See more

There are three primary ways to move from Enabler to Grower: