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For over 99 percent of our species’ history we lived amidst scarcity. Thus you, dear reader, like me and everyone else, evolved to seek out high-reward, low-energy-needed-to-acquire goods. This strategy worked well for hundreds of thousands of years. But now, in modern times of abundance, it is backfiring. Like so many things, what works,... See more

The pandemic has shown that when people have resources and know a problem to solve, they make the best decisions at the time and get things done. The lesson is that companies should no longer fear the idea of actually giving people the resources to get something new done. The pandemic proved that companies have the resources when they need them.

Slack is the 911 for whatever isn’t possible natively in a company’s productivity apps. And though it’s improving, there are still many structural cracks. Slack is current best solution for filling these cracks. But it doesn’t fix the cracks themselves, improved processes and productivity apps are needed for that.

And so, a good starting point for any brand to think like a curator is to create your own aesthetic world instead of simply relying on your product’s aesthetic or your visual handwriting. A brand’s aesthetic world is infinite: it extends to a pair of sneakers, a piece of furniture, a playlist, and even collaborations.

The worst thing that can happen is that you frequently step in, and people disassociate from their work.  They become drones who do what's told instead of taking ownership.  If this is your goal, you can hire cheaper, less talented people.

When you don’t know how much to pay someone for a particular task, ask them “what would be fair” and their answer usually is.

1/50 Thoughts on gaming economics, NFTs and the Metaverse.