Building a product is like making a song. The band is composed of marketing, sales, engineering, support, manufacturing, PR, legal. And the product manager is the producer—making sure everyone knows the melody, that nobody is out of tune and everyone is doing their part. They’re the only person who can see and hear how all the pieces are coming tog... See more
Big social—my moniker for the collective of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube—is emblematic of what I call habitual social. Habitual social apps depend on having a large daily user base, usually measured as daily active users, or DAUs. The more time each user spends, the happier the platform.
Viewed through that lens, governance mechanisms might become less defensive – focused less on protecting against hacks that threaten the entire DAO – and more offensive and fun – focused more on governance as a means of entertainment, social discovery, and propagation.
Today @tryscroll announced our discovery partner program and @Techmeme as our first discovery partner. Now Scroll members fund both the ad-free content they read and the curators or aggregators that directed them there. Here’s why (thread): https://scroll.blog/2020/07/13/funding-curators-techmeme-becomes-inaugural-discovery-partner/... See more