To sum it all up for the TL;DR crowd, here’s what we did:-Create consensus that there is a problem and alignment around pursuing a solution -Create a unified view of all existing work
If Twitter had a full-time CEO, he or she would have come to this conclusion in half the time. Twitter doesn’t have the scale to compete on an ad model, and their ad tools are substandard. However, they are unwittingly starching their hat blue and could acquire several of the remaining independent media properties (Lee, McClatchy, Condé Nast,... See more
People are being paid to think. Indie thinkers spend their time asking questions, researching niche topics, connecting ideas, and share their newly acquired knowledge online for people to consume.
Encourage employees planning to move to certain regions to choose locations near each other. If a bunch of people want to move to Texas for the sunshine and absence of state taxes, a company could build an outpost in Austin, contract a local realtor, and provide resources on the best schools and activities there (not that people need more... See more
One of the reasons I’m particularly excited that experiments in digital ownership are tending towards communities and peer production is because knowledge creation is a team sport. That’s something I know from working in some amazing neuroscience labs, my career in product development, and the past few years of writing online in various places.... See more
Wikipedia was, in some ways, the first Media DAO (I'm not the first person to say this)
I listened to co-founder of Wikipedia @jimmy_wales speak last week
He said something I keep thinking about, so I gotta do a quick thread 🧵