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There are also promising cultural and macro shifts supporting a resurgence of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small businesses.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: Enabling entrepreneurship in the creator economy
WHOA.
Yes- Microsoft laid off 6,000 people BUT... they dropped a pretty brutal new policy overhaul:
-2-year rehire ban for anyone pushed out over performance
-A new “good attrition” metric (yes, they track if they’re happy you’re gone)
PLUS... you have 5 days to choose:
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Creator Economy- anyone who is creating community around original content.
Sam Yam • a16z Podcast: How the Passion Economy Is Redefining Work | Andreessen Horowitz
Extinction Internet
Geert Lovink discusses the decline of internet culture, highlighting issues like entropy and platform dominance, while emphasizing the need for alternatives, degrowth, and a collective reimagining of digital spaces for a sustainable future.
networkcultures.org(8) Expert gig workers
Dominic Monn • Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition – Dominic Monn
Christina M. Underhill,
Shane Snow • Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
The Systems Lab is organised around four action-research streams that are designed to interrogate and practically influence a set of underlying conditions in our city:
- Measuring What Matters
- New Urban Governance
- Adaptive Futures
- Investing in Transformation