Vyara Ndejuru
@vyarandejuru
we’ll see I guess
Vyara Ndejuru
Having a community helps protect against competitor companies or products entering your territory. Whether that community is a group of power users, open source contributors, creators, or even just a brand (or franchise)’s super fans, it lends greater brand awareness, higher switching costs, and scale economies.
Patrick Woods • Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
Trebor Schulz coined the term “platform cooperativism” in 2014 (perhaps not coincidentally, a year before Ethereum launched). As a movement, platform cooperativism is exploring ways we can shift the structures of the Internet so that all participants are fairly rewarded for their labor. It is in some ways a reaction to the rise of the gig economy,... See more
Austin Robey • Co-ops, DAOs, and the way forward for collectives
