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- But I think it’s equally interesting to look at communities of professionals in design, engineering, etc. I think those professional groups can ultimately look like social communities, as well as labor marketplaces
from The Founder's Dilemma: To Compete or Unbundle | Andreessen Horowitz by Jonathan Lai
- A PhD knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
from The Quantum Rules: How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life by Kunal Das
- - “I believe that writing is the biggest source of leverage that’s also open to everybody. Anyone with an internet connection, access to ideas, and the time to sit down and put their fingers on glass can publish something and reach the world with it.” – David Perell
from Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes by Anthony Pompliano
why does this matter? to me the internet today feels like a theme park, which is what happens when you design in a top-down, manicured way. even though its UGC creators on tiktok and youtube are at the mercy of the algorithm
from - YouTube by Colin Dunn
- We’ve been operating companies for the past ten years as if the internet does not exist. In the last five years the tools we have are more than good enough and there are no good excuses for using remote work to build more agile and adaptive capacity within your organization.
from #94: Twitter's Remote-Work Free Strategy Option by Paul Millerd
- A league with 30 intense competitors requires a culture of finding new, better ways to solve repeating problems. In the short term, investing in that sort of innovation often doesn’t look like much progress, if any. Abraham Lincoln said “give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
from SAM H INKIE 3 6 0 1 S O U T H B R O A D S T R E E T
- Somehow, today’s best-in-class email apps are hybrids, combinations of the best ideas every other email app brought before. It’s hard to imagine email without web apps, limitless storage, notifications, archive search, and a bit of over-the-top self-promotion. Each feature, at one time, was enough to launch a new email app, to convince us all to sw... See more
from Email is where new software features get invented. by Matthew Guay
- There are fundamental differences in the crypto- vs. tech-native theories of change. Tech focuses on hiring top talent, but borrows similar reward structures from both science and startups today. Crypto takes a more diffuse, networked approach to attracting talent and is more willing to reimagine basic structures like patents, IP, and even research... See more
from Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021 by Nadia Asparouhova
- Layer on top of that the onboarding frictions for social money once you're in Discord, and you have the perfect recipe for good ol' country churn. Crypto communities have developed a real affinity for using tokens as access gates (i.e., the channels you can see are a function of how many tokens you hold). This approach presumes a high degree of aud... See more
from Reflections on "Community" by Richard Kim