👋 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
Learning From Quibi:
Katzenberg looked at one measure of quality: his own intuitive sense of what he liked. His “gut.” And he actively and vocally dismissed the more expansive signals from consumers, as defined by the billions of views that they paid to creators in places like Youtube, Instagram and Snapchat.
📡 The message is in the community—Salil Dalvi
Surviving disillusionment:
The default in engineering is different. We don't have a daily ritual built into our jobs that reminds us why we got into the field. Without a ritual, the drudgery creeps closer and the vision of the monastery recedes. So we must be very deliberate in developing rituals to keep the two realities in their proper proportion.
👊 Cultivate what got you here—Slava Akhmechet
“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community”:
I’m of the belief that “Come for the Content, Stay for the Community” will be one of the dominating themes for media this decade .. So it’s not a question of “how many newsletters can one person pay for?” it’s “how many communities does someone want to be a part of?”
👯♂️ The community is the message—Hunter Walk
🎧 Listening
Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture... or Civilization:
Any sufficient familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.
Virginia Postrel—a16z Podcast
Future of Tech Activism and the Deep Flaws of ‘The Social Dilemma’:
I think that ignores the fact that a lot of this isn’t actually the product of innovation. It’s the product of a significant concentration of power and resources. It’s not progress. It’s the fact that we all are now, more or less, conscripted to carry phones as part of interacting in our daily work lives, our social lives, and being part of the world around us.
Meredith Whittaker—Big Technology Podcast
Operating Locally at Global Scale with Lime:
[..] you also have to sit with the fact that we’re all humans who have basic needs (as we try to operate at such a fast pace). And we have to balance those as part of where tech and humanity meet and we want to make sure they more than meet, they ultimately unify.
Caen Contee—Landed
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