Not Corp-Tech
Not Corp-Tech
DeFi + Creators, Non-expert Specialists, and... leaving Google?!
👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week's 32 remarkable stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #culture.
📚 Reading
Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
We start companies to build products that serve people, not to sit in meetings with lawyers. You need to be able to answer the "what have I done for our users today" question with "not much but I got promoted" and be happy with that answer to be successful in Corp-Tech … The innovation challenges at Corp-Tech will only get worse as the risk tolerance will go down. Soon, Lawyers > Builders and the builders will need to go elsewhere to start new companies.
🤔 “Lawyers > Builders“, there must be a name for that—Noam Bardin
DeFi + Creators = 🚀:
Companies and projects might become more like clouds, larger than ever before but with vaguer outlines, eroding the boundaries between employees, consultants, customers and investors … Like creator fandom today, every ‘company’ or project will become more like a tribe, driven and defined by the stories and symbols linking its members together, led by those who best weave its narrative.
🤭 Fandom as an organising principle—Trends, Analysis, Lies and Statistics
The Role Of The Non-Expert Specialist:
I call this person the Non-Expert Specialist because they are a person who is not necessarily an expert in the topic at hand but has decided for whatever reason to come from the realm of the “normal people” to educate themselves, listen to experts, sift through information, read, think, consider, and communicate their views to others.
🧐 If systems shift, who will grow to be the new experts?—Marginally Compelling
🎧 Listening
Allen Lau—Means of Creation:
In the early stages of a creator's lifecycle, they are not first and foremost looking for monetisation. Their compensation is really in the feeling of affirmation that they get from the audience and the love that they get from their leadership [..] I don't want companies to lose sight of the fact that there's a whole range of non-monetary incentives that you can offer to creators.
Ben Thompson—Good Time Show:
No single quote will do Ben Thompson justice. A landmark analyst of the impact of technology on society with a personal journey to tell. Without him, Thoughtforms would not exist 🤷♂️
One on One with Marc and Ben—a16z Podcast:
Messrs. Andreessen and Horowitz stepped away from the public stage some time ago, so this is a unique occasion. Yes, it's three hours of audio 😱 It’s is also that A and that Z.
👷🏻♀️👷🏻♂️Our Work
An open-source toolbox for the citizen designers of the creator economy—Youtube
The sister newsletter zooming in on the platform economy—The NTWK.
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