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- Taking a consumer approach to enterprise
Brianne Kimmel • Not Found
Instead of focusing so heavily on content expansion, creators and publishers need to be thinking about building features they can provide their most loyal customers-- the subscriber. The goal should be to have subscribers identify directly with the creator and feel invested in their work.
Jarrod Dicker • A Media Ownership Model: Why Subscribe When You Can Invest?
When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers.
Kevin Kelly • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
There is the argument (that I regularly advocate) that pushing out the moderation to the ends of the network (i.e., giving more controls to the end users) is better, but that also has some complications in that it puts the burden on end users, and they have neither the time nor inclination to continually tweak their own settings. No matter what
... See moreMike Masnick • Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
Just whatever you do, don’t become a “management consultant” at a behemoth like McKinsey or Bain or one of the other eight consultancies that dominate the industry. They all have thousands upon thousands of employees and work almost exclusively with Fortune 5000 companies. These corporations, typically led by tentative, risk-averse CEOs, call in... See more
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
The explosion of paperwork, in turn, is a direct result of the introduction of corporate management techniques, which are always justified as ways of increasing efficiency, by introducing competition at every level. What these management techniques invariably end up meaning in practice is that everyone winds up spending most of their time trying to... See more
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
The giving and the receiving of attention are both intimate acts. These acts are the very basis of all human communications, and by extension, human societies. Any tools or technologies that mediate this act need to be designed with great care, to artfully maintain the human elements around this mutual expression of vulnerability.