issue # 12
issue # 12
brie wolfson down the org design rabbit hole, finding great talent, the practical creator
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HOT LINKS IN OUR UNIVERSE
Tyler Cowen on The Secret to Finding Great Talent
Intelligence isn’t highly correlated to income—here are some factors that have a stronger correlation: energy and ambition, ability to work well with others, durability or the ability to stick with something, and ability to see the right hierarchies to climb within an organization.
🕺 Curated in Intelligence, Hiring Advice & the Future of Talent
Don't surround yourself with smarter people by Venkatesh Rao
The trick is to surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not. In other words, don’t surround yourself with smarter people. Surround yourself with differently free people.
🕺 Curated in Intelligence & Career Management and Coaching
The Arc of the Practical Creator by Lawrence Yeo is a brilliantly insightful essay about what it takes to succeed as a creator
Creative expression is often used as a gateway to something more practical, and is rarely accepted as something practical in itself…. but the internet enabled a vision where creativity and practicality were directly correlated. The more effort you put into your creative output, the greater the practical benefits would be.
🕺 Curated in the Creator Economy, Creativity & Creator Monetization
and this week's Just Trust Us 👇
A thread by Danny Zuckerman on web3, the tension between extrinsic and intrinsic incentives, and why money and communities mix poorly
🕺 Curated in Incentive Design, Tokenized Communities, Online Niche Communities & Human Behavior
POPULAR RABBIT HOLES ON STARTUPY
17 connections → 8 content, 5 companies, 4 related topics
User Generated Content (UGC) Platforms
40 connections → 16 content, 17 companies, 7 related topics
93 connections → 69 content, 18 companies, 6 related topics
33 connections → 29 content mentions, 1 published
Top Thinker → Psychology
40 connections → 34 content, 2 companies, 4 related topics
34 connections → 32 content, 1 companies, 1 related topics
✨ CURATOR SPOTLIGHT
Writer and researcher, going down the company culture 🐇 🕳️
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Why is company culture interesting?
On first blush, it's easy to interpret the writing and thinking around company culture through the lens of how founders and leaders can establish high-performing teams. But as you spend more time with the topic, you realize that the strongest cultures are those that engage everyone in the work of establishing, upholding, and evolving culture. Nothing great in this town is built without the whole team linking arms to build it together.
A podcast worth listening to?
Acquired Podcast (to which I'll ascribe the tagline, non-boring corporate histories!)
Things worth reading and watching?
How to Scale with Patrick Collison
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations by Tyler Cowen
Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO by Ben Horowitz
How organizations are like slime molds by Alex Komoroske
Reflections on what made Stripe different than other places by me :)
Projects worth following?
My favorite projects right now are Are.na and mmm.page! They make being on the internet beautiful and fun.
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