The problem is not merely homogeneity of topic, but homogeneity of substance. If you have to publish a newsletter every week, you don’t have the room or incentive to take risks.
Garry Tan calls our attention to a great example of interface hospitality: Chrome’s tab-closing behavior. When you click the ‘x’ to close a tab, the remaining tabs shift or resize so that the next tab’s ‘x’ is right underneath your cursor. This way you can close multiple tabs without moving your mouse.
DAOs present an alternative organizational structure that tries to align incentives for the long-term among a variety of stakeholders. The relationship changes from creator and consumer to everyone as co-creators. Creative organizations begin to look more like flat peer-to-peer networks as opposed to hierarchies.
Zooming out, this is where capitalists and socialists should finally find common ground. In this new world, everyone becomes an investor. We go from thousands of people with financial upside in companies, to millions. We go from 1% capital to 99% capital. On any given platform, labor becomes capital. The ethos of a co-op merged with the efficiency ... See more