👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of what was written or said at the interaction of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation, and stood out.
📚 Reading
Making is Show Business now:
Today, the natural constraint on open-source projects has become like an upside-down Tragedy of the Commons problem [..] Here, the commons at risk of being overdrawn isn’t the product; the code itself can be consumed limitlessly. The risk is that the creators become overdrawn and overwhelmed with participation, and with demands on their time.
🤫 The truth about open source software—Alex Danco
Age is malleable:
An essential component of the Fordist work paradigm relied on what Gratton and Scott call the three-stage life (first education, then work and finally retirement). For each chronological age, there’s a matching life stage. And welfare state “cradle-to-grave” institutions tend to put people of the same age together and prevent age mixing.
⏰ Another Fordist paradigm best put behind us—Laetitia@Work
'The Social Dilemma':
Ultimately it’s up to us if the next chapter in our history, to use the printing press/Reformation timeline as a guide, is the Thirty Years’ War—the bloodiest, bitterest conflict in European history until WWII—or the Enlightenment, a period of unprecedented scientific and political progress.
😱 It’s dystopia only if we make it so—The Pull Request
The author also wrote Chaos Monkeys, and it shows in the language 🤭
🎧 Listening
Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups:
There are certain class of technologies that increase the expressive range of a certain medium. And when you increase the expressive range of a medium, a lot of things pop up that were not possible before because you now are playing in a new design space.
Sep Kamvar—a16z
Empowering everyone to build the internet:
There is low-end disruption at play as well. These creator-led offerings represent a lower-end, low-priced version of something that had been professionally produced by an organisation or a company before. And they have a completely different cost-structure than the old version [..] It taps into a lower segment of the market that has been over served or has not been able to access before.
Ankur Nagpal—Means of Creation
The Empathy Edge:
Wait a minute! We’re spending the bulk of our time at work: it should be a place where we thrive. It should be a place where we’re seen, heard, and valued. And what’s more: [this is] linked to business results. If you can do that, you can increase innovation, collaboration and retention.
Maria Ross—The Wicked Podcast
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