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The Covid situation is actually fostering the rise of online micro-communities where a small group of users share the same values and interest and, as a result, are super engaged

Emilie Spire • Our lives are changing

a small minority of the most productive office employees can now capture a bigger share of all work (and all rewards) in a variety of industries.

Dror Poleg • Slack and the Imaginary Economy.

Putting talent at the center of its business opens up entirely new opportunities for media companies when the core asset and value is attributed to the individual. The new line of business now becomes somewhat inverted: instead of everything being limited to under a brand halo where advertisers buy on the brand and consumers subscribe to the brand,... See more

Jarrod Dicker • The Next Media Business: Talent, Reputation and Lessons from Record Labels

The second investment was in Twitter for $25k Often found himself working at Twitter on general tasks because he really needed the $25k back. Involved early on at Google, helped engineers without MBAs communicate with customers. After this, he embraced his generalist skills and entered into VC

Harry Stebbings • 20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unfk The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**...

Principles: Optimize for happy, empowered customersSurrender control, and embrace emergenceCede authorityTreat people as ends, not meansEnough is enoughPlay long gamesTell the truth, even when it's scaryCreate invitations, not ultimatumsTrust fully and unconditionally

Rob Hardy • Non-Coercive Marketing: A Primer

There are so, so many of these men freckled throughout history. Paul Erdős, a renown mathematician characterized by his eclectic genius and all-consuming obsession with math, didn’t butter his own toast until he was an adult. There are several stories recounting how he often offloaded domestic or non-math related tasks to the women in his life

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There’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up recently called the Dead Internet Theory. The claim is basically that most of the internet is bots. There aren’t real people here anymore.

Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • Google Search Is Dying

while technology has gotten us into this mess (climate change) only technology can get us out of it. Only the technium (our technological system) is “big” enough to work at the global scale needed to fix this planetary sized problem. Individual personal virtue (bicycling, using recycling bins) is not enough.

Kevin Kelly • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist

By any measure, conventional or otherwise, the volume of microtransactions shows that the significance gamers attach to their virtual items and achievements can be a real source of economic value.