issue #1
the curse of solutionism, time management for mortals, the answer is not more information
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HOT LINKS IN OUR UNIVERSE
Web 3 & the curse of solutionism by Jason Choi
Being decentralized / having a token does not absolve you from the requirements beset upon scaling a product people actually want to use. In fact, the considerable frictions of using a crypto backend means it’s likely harder, as you must make up for the UX shortfall by delivering a product that’s 10x better than its centralized counterparts.
🕺 Curated in Web 3.0, Metaverse & Product Design
4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. To embrace it, to whatever extent you can. (Isn’t it hilarious, in hindsight, that you ever imagined things might be otherwise?) Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to “do something remarkable” with them. In fact, it entails precisely the opposite: refusing to hold them to an abstract and overdemanding standard of remarkableness, against which they can only ever be found wanting, and taking them instead on their own terms, dropping back down from godlike fantasies of cosmic significance into the experience of life as it concretely, finitely—and often enough, marvelously—really is.
🕺 Curated in Time Management & Personal Development
What's going on here, with this human by Graham Duncan
Seeing people clearly—or at least more clearly—matters not just when finding the “best” hire, but in identifying the best role for them. Even looking at those of us who are lucky enough to have a high degree of choice about what we do with our work, I’ll bet that as few as 20% of us are in the seat that best optimizes our talents and skills at any given time—the seat that makes us feel at home in the world. That’s not good for the 80%, and it’s not good for their teams either.
🕺 Curated in Hiring Advice
The Answer is Not More Information by L.M. Sacasas
Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world to the mode of consumption.
💃 Curated in Tech and Society
One of the things that I’ve always found is you can … get an organization and a team through almost any challenge as long as you can maintain good cohesion. When our stock price goes down, that doesn’t make me not sleep at night. When there’s a new competitor, that doesn’t make me not sleep at night. If there’s an issue on my team and there isn’t good cohesion, then I’m not sleeping well until I resolve that.
🕺 Curated in Metaverse, Parenting, Virtual Reality, Management & Founder Mindset
We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way.
🕺 Curated in Storytelling, Death Care & The Wellness Economy
👀 PROJECTS THAT HAVE OUR ATTENTION
Jupe is a dwelling unit inspired by the stars, designed for new frontiers beyond the city and off the grid.
🕺 Curated in Future of Homebuilding, Future of Housing
Tome is a storytelling tool for work - display content from any web service like it’s an integrated part of your story.
Curated in Storytelling, Workplace Collaboration Tools
Station provides web3-native toolkits for communities to attract, onboard and retain the best talent.
🕺 Curated in Reputation, Credentialing and Status, Tooling for DAOs & Web 3.0
Wander is a network of smart homes in inspiring places that you can book for your next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between.
🕺 Curated in Future of Hospitality, Remote Work, Future of Travel
A joyful productivity and to-do app.
🕺 Curated in Prosumer & Workplace Productivity
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