👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week’s remarkable stories at the intersection of technology, business, design, and culture.
Three articles and three podcasts wrestled from this week's algorithmic feeds and click-bait chum. No fluff, just stuff⚡️
📚 Reading
📜 The Ungated Manifesto:
I've met so many creators—including outwardly successful ones making a great living—who are unhappy, and who feel trapped. They joined the creator economy to pursue a life of freedom and creativity and connection. So they followed all the rules and Best Practices. They did everything right , yet still ended up constructing a prison for themselves, just as soul-crushing as any day job that preceded it.
24-minute read by Rob Hardy
👩🏻💻 Think Bigger About Remote Work:
[R]emote work is a general purpose technology. Like the steam engine or electrification, there will be wide impacts and spillovers through a variety of industries, and not all of them will be direct and obvious [..] It is easy to see why ways of working and new technologies privilege new firms who are starting from scratch, rather than existing firms who have to adapt business practices and even their pool of workers.
14-minute read by Adam Ozimek in Noahpinion
👩🏻🔬 How to Validate Your Startup Idea:
While there’s no single right way to get started or build a business—and timing, luck, and grit often play an outsize role—over the years, I’ve observed a few commonalities in how strong businesses got their start [And] you can learn a lot from reverse-engineering how the best entrepreneurs went about building their companies.
58-minute read by Todd Jackson in Lenny’s Newsletter
🎧 Listening
🛍 How Web3 Is Changing Commerce and Governance:
Sometimes it feels like, with Web3 the potential is that these new primitives—which are these incentivization mechanisms enabled by these tokens that can somehow represent value in ways that there's no double counting and there's no easy repudiation—allow us to build all sorts of exciting new things.
44 minutes with Packy McCormick on Exponential View
🏭 Strategy in the Digital Revolution:
The risk of looking at something as evolutionary instead of revolutionary is that we continue to think that things haven't changed. We continue to look at digital as a way to do what we've always done, just faster, easier, cheaper [..] There is a whole spectrum of fundamental assumptions around industry structure and business model structure. Those foundational elements, basically the sand is shifting underneath their feet.
44 minutes with Ryan McManus on Duke Corporate Education
🖥 Was Tim Cook the Right Choice for Apple?
Services wouldn't be 1/5th of Apple's revenue without the distribution underlying it from iPhone's expansion. The two are intertwined, and that's what Tim Cook has been so effective in doing: taking this seminal product—literally the best-selling product in history—and finding ways to build more value on top.
61 minutes with Tripp Mickle on Big Technology Podcast
🎁 One More Thing
Adriana participates in next week's Amsterdam pexcon conference, reflecting on a different kind of organisational transformation with community-led Tech Innovation Studios at its heart.
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