👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation that stood out.
📚 Reading
A prosocial social network:
But there is nothing inevitable about social media putting people into a constant state of agitation. This state is a consequence of the business model of the social media companies. Change the business model and you change the incentives. Change the incentives and you change the experience. Change the experience, and you may be able to walk everyone off the ledge.
👷♀️ We build the tools, after all—Zero Credibility
Online speech and publishing:
[A]sking whether these systems are ‘platforms’ or ‘publishers ’ seems about as useful as people in the 1930s asking whether a radio station is really a book or a newspaper. Yes, it has aspects of both, but it isn’t either of them - it’s something new. I have no sympathy with the idea that somehow rules don’t apply to the internet, but rules do need to understand what it is and how it works.
👩⚖️ Build the tools, and the rules to match—Benedict Evans
Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack:
[W]herever possible, users should decide for themselves, and companies at the infrastructure layer should stay well out of it. The firmest, most consistent, approach infrastructure chokepoints can take is to simply refuse to be chokepoints at all. They should act to defend their role as a conduit, rather than a publisher.
👩🚒 Build the Principles stack too—EFF
🎧 Listening
You Lead:
First is, have the humility to say "I don't know everything", recognise that and hire people accordingly. [Second], spend a portion of the day to learning; do it in a time-constrained way.
Minter Dail—The Wicked Podcast
What’s Not Being Said:
We are now entering a time where it's possible to do with extremely large surface area and complex enterprise apps what was done with [much simpler] apps like WhatsApp and Instagram. We are entering the time where the tradeoff between revenue and headcount no longer needs to be made.
Zack Kanter—Village Global's Venture Stories
Capital Destruction and Mimetic Desire in Tech and Finance:
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Byrne Hobart—The interview with Taylor Pearson
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