👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of what was written or said at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation, and stood out.
📚 Reading
How To Manage Disruptive Talent:
The fact of the matter is that organizations’ ability to execute on their innovation agenda will by and large depend on the freedom, autonomy, resources, and support that these entrepreneurial individuals have. If they are marginalized or isolated, or seen as troublemakers, then it is safe to assume that the company’s immunity to change will work as a perfect antidote to innovation.
💁♂️ Innovation spells trouble, one way or another—Forbes
Ghost Kitchens Are the Wave of the Future. But Is That a Good Thing?
“It was the only way we could start something up with no capital, and so we figured it would be a great opportunity for us to build a brand and maybe establish ourselves a little bit in the industry so we can open our doors in the future for larger projects”
👩🔬 A testing ground for what’s in an uncertain market—Eater
Inside A16z’s Media Operations:
The tone makes the difference between a show of talkative egos and an influential editorial system. The host of A16z podcasts can also yield to a pleasant enthusiasm for a conversation that would not be permissible in legit media, where corrosiveness is a presumed attribute of credibility.
💆 608 editions, and counting —Monday Note
🎧 Listening
Hard Truths about Digital Banking:
the economics of banking are changing, the significance of technology is changing, the world will be more connected, service orchestration will be the name of the game, unit economics will change. All of that is happening [..] There is a direction of travel and we’ve been very much moving in that direction for 15 years.
Leda Glyptis—Structural Shifts
Don't capture value, create it:
You have to recognise reality. From the very beginning, an open source company that was trying to create subscription revenue was not the right model for monetising open source. The right model is to build services on top of that.
Tim O'Reilly—Cota Podcast
Is content moderation a dead end?
There's this argument that free speech issues don't apply to Facebook, because it's not the government. Well, it's a private company that controls how billions of people talk to each other. If they decide what billions of people can't say, that's ipso facto a free speech question. Doesn't matter whether they're the government or not.
Episode 5—Another Podcast
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