🥸  MOOD

🪐  10 COOL THINGS CURATED IN OUR UNIVERSE

An excellent read on how we can fix the market for solutions, exploring why it’s still hard for builders and customers to find each other, and how we can increase the scale and quality of companies we see founded in the future. Lots of related ideas curated in future of talent, idea generation, and the future of funding topic pages.

 

The power to the people topic page is packed with interesting insights on how and why artificial gatekeepers of quality (academia and media) are disappearing and what that means for individuals.

 

3. Molly Mielke’s tweet sums up our feelings about crypto - technology is irrelevant if we don't wrap that progress around our own enlightenment as a species. Related insights in our humane tech, collective ownership, and public goods funding topics.

We’re deep down the delightful rabbit hole that is David Cain’s blog, Raptitude. A standout highlight for me: We live in a society that assesses people by what their lives produce, not what it takes to live them. Inner work is ignored unless it explains some outer work.

 

We’re keeping an eye on Teamshares and Withco, two startups making it possible for small business owners and employees to create more wealth through ownership.

 

6. An excellent set of frameworks from Chris Paik. Must read if you are a founder or VC.

 

The infrastructure for DTC brands topic page has a goldmine of resources for consumer brand founders - including new tools to bypass Instagram ads and acquire customers through collaborations such as Disco, Cortina, and Canal.

 

Feeling the grind of remote work and keeping an eye on Marco and Offsyte - two startups helping companies plan beautiful retreats and fun virtual/in-person events. 

 

Spotted: AMAZING contributions to the Weird Internet Careers topic page from our favorite curators / weird internet careerists Tom Critchlow and Nick deWilde. I’m sitting with this quote in particular: there are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. As someone who cherishes independence, I’ve realized that rather than trying to win, my primary goal is to continue playing. 

🌱  COMMUNITY HEALTH

Welcoming our first group of Season Zero curators to our curator community this week and virtual high-fiving Supritha Sumathi, Tomas Soracco, Sam Liebeskind, Prashanth Narayan, and Darren LI for their contributions.

✨  CURATOR SPOTLIGHT

 

 

Why are executive dashboards interesting? 

In my work as an independent consultant I find it fascinating that executives are both perpetually frustrated with their dashboards (i.e. their "view of the company") while simultaneously not doing anything about it. I think that GOOD dashboard design is hard but I think if you can get it right it creates great alignment and momentum inside an organization.

 

Not quite a podcast but this is a great conference talk from Clare Gollnick on Why No One is Looking at your Data.

 

The book Working Backwards about how Amazon works is great - in particular the concept of input metrics and output metrics. There's a good book summary here.

 

I also liked this framing of "flat metrics dashboards."

 

Two projects I'm watching very closely:
 

Doubleloop which is a startup building dashboards that connect strategic objectives, data and input metrics all in one visual place.

 

Variance which is a startup building the ultimate product led growth data pipeline by defining milestone and connecting it to your CRM.

 

Calling all rabbit hole voyagers, curators, concept librarians, and knowledge remixers who want to get in on the ground floor to help us shape startupy to be the best community-curated knowledge graph.