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Companies that want to play in this space must expose their individuals to these relationships and values, in order to build genuine trust.
For most companies, this kind of participation is an alien level of exposure. The corporate “brand” is a fiction of paramount importance.
For most companies, this kind of participation is an alien level of exposure. The corporate “brand” is a fiction of paramount importance.
The reason why companies like @rstudio and @anacondainc are so fundamentally different from most others is because we are amphibians - we operate in a corporate world but we fully participate in the community, and our communities can trust that corporate leadership really cares.
I believe that if the future of technology is to be generative (not finite-sum) and positive and humane, all tech companies must develop from and participate within real human communities.
We must reimagine the notion of the firm to include ppl inside & outside the office walls.
We must reimagine the notion of the firm to include ppl inside & outside the office walls.
Remember Bill Joy’s law of management: no matter who you are, most of the smart people work for somebody else.
What if we could create a world where all those people worked “for” each other? And they could live in accord with their technical and personal values?
What if we could create a world where all those people worked “for” each other? And they could live in accord with their technical and personal values?
The purpose of a firm, then, evolves to be to drive economic energy into such communities: Bridging and harnessing transactional energy from the world of scarcity, to fuel the infinite game of invention and co-creation.
This is related to @jamescham tweet from last week.
Status is merely social scarcity that every H. Sapiens brain is pre-wired for.
Industrial-era thinking & Taylorism are good at extracting value from scarcity—In this case, fear of losing status & neuroticism about gaining it. https://twitter.com/jamescham/status/1339705430545752065
Status is merely social scarcity that every H. Sapiens brain is pre-wired for.
Industrial-era thinking & Taylorism are good at extracting value from scarcity—In this case, fear of losing status & neuroticism about gaining it. https://twitter.com/jamescham/status/1339705430545752065
We are also wired for love and connection - but love isn’t scarce.
When industrial-era extraction hits human innate desire for connection & belonging, we get the catastrophe of Facebook.
Want to see pics of your grandkids? Gotta expose your eyeballs to computational propaganda.
When industrial-era extraction hits human innate desire for connection & belonging, we get the catastrophe of Facebook.
Want to see pics of your grandkids? Gotta expose your eyeballs to computational propaganda.
A new class of business models must emerge, that can harness the power of positive connection in human networks. Like Monsters, Inc., they’ll make way more money by harnessing joy than bottling up fear.
In the world of software, this starts with open source, but can’t end there.
In the world of software, this starts with open source, but can’t end there.
The final act of the software era (which @BillGates kicked off) is to give birth to a new AI era, where data, code, and human insight are all intertwined.
The business models for this new world cannot be rooted in the old mindsets of scarcity & extraction & homogeneous scaling.
The business models for this new world cannot be rooted in the old mindsets of scarcity & extraction & homogeneous scaling.
Are there investors/angels/LPs who I can have a genuine conversation with around this thesis?
It’s not merely networked or marketplace business models. It’s about reimagining capitalism, so technology can better fulfill human needs. We need a mix of Western & Eastern values.
It’s not merely networked or marketplace business models. It’s about reimagining capitalism, so technology can better fulfill human needs. We need a mix of Western & Eastern values.
