For the last few years, we were all wondering what the next platform would be after mobile, that would enable new social networks to emerge.
However, that catalyst won't be a new device—but instead, it will be widespread behavioral change. The conditions could never be better:
In the passion economy: it’s much more about growing your audience or intensifying the relationship that you have with your audience and your customers. It’s about building a depth of fandom.
New and disruptive interfaces will emerge that aggregate and connect the underlying services we use to live and work. Some companies are rising to the occasion, including Command E (an easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud)
This was important. People measure their well being against their peers. And for most of the 1945-1980 period, people had a lot of what looked like peers to compare themselves to. Many people – most people – lived lives that were either equal or at least fathomable to those around them.
I'm consistently surprised by how the single act of doing this as an eng manager or product manager makes incredible waves:
Send an email explaining what your team did the past 1-2 weeks, what your plans are for the next period, blockers & lessons learned.
Every. Single. Time.