👋 🎄 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
Exit to Community:
But you don’t see many cooperatives among the fastest-growing, most disruptive startups of the digital economy. Which is surprising, given the nature of many new startup business models: highly networked, community or peer-powered, and purpose-driven.
👽 What if there was another way?—The Future Normal
Techno-optimism for the 2020s:
I think the IT era created much more progress and social change than the productivity numbers capture. But even if you disagree, take heart; technological progress in the 2020s will not necessarily be concentrated in “tech” as we know it.
🚀 They promised us flying cars—Noahpinion
Squad Wealth:
But the squad is more than a loose network of affiliations, it's a coherent body. A second prerequisite of squad formation is self-recognition. It's not you or me. It's Us. We. Ours. This pillar often follows from the first. Squads may start as one-off Telegram channels, but they soon become "The Group Chat," a metonym for the squad itself
🌻 Let a thousand squads bloom—Other Internet
🎧 Listening
The landlords of the Internet:
The term 'algorithmic rents' is probably too narrow: they are really design rents. They are showing this tiny window on a massive information space. It's the set of features by which they manage your perception of what's there.
Tim O'Reilly—Danny in the Valley
Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies:
One of the fallacies is most early stage startup founders think they're managers. And their actually not. What they actually have is a team that's actually managing them. Because when you're managing say 10 or less people and spending time with them every day, what's actually happening is they're managing you by influence because they know you well enough. [..] The team manages you up.
Charlie Songhurst—Invest Like the Best
On all things technology, film and media:
They are all doing the math in the back of their head: does this platform drive enough incremental distribution to justify the cost? And if not, at some point you'll jump and you'll end up with some of the more lightweight platforms that don't even drive distribution for you.
Eugene Wei—Means of Creation (Apple, Spotify)
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