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The unconference: #cSGDs
Coming out of the Stanford GSB, one of my favorite customs is small group dinners (SGDs). These SGDs were a direct response to counter the many large and impersonal events where hundreds of students mingled and chit-chatted much ado about nothing while vigorously drowning their boredom with cheap beer to pass the time. Although to be far, these larger events were fun in the moment - you laughed over inside jokes, bonded over sinking plastic balls in cups, and generally created loose ties abou...
The unconference: #cSGDs
Coming out of the Stanford GSB, one of my favorite customs is small group dinners (SGDs). These SGDs were a direct response to counter the many large and impersonal events where hundreds of students mingled and chit-chatted much ado about nothing while vigorously drowning their boredom with cheap beer to pass the time. Although to be far, these larger events were fun in the moment - you laughed over inside jokes, bonded over sinking plastic balls in cups, and generally created loose ties abou...
social networking > collective economy
My first foray into the internet was playing Neopets in 1999. This was a place where people could raise digital pets and participate in a burgeoning virtual economy. I played this seemingly childish game for years even into high school because it was so elegantly designed - it was one of the earliest forms of an incentive-aligned online community where anonymous participants could meet each other in a digital village to collaborate, build, chat, collect, and quite simply, be themselves. Your ...
social networking > collective economy
My first foray into the internet was playing Neopets in 1999. This was a place where people could raise digital pets and participate in a burgeoning virtual economy. I played this seemingly childish game for years even into high school because it was so elegantly designed - it was one of the earliest forms of an incentive-aligned online community where anonymous participants could meet each other in a digital village to collaborate, build, chat, collect, and quite simply, be themselves. Your ...
my phone was stolen at Coachella and it opened my eyes to what was wrong with web2
Web2 Social Media was designed to kidnap our attention. This reality was made crystal clear to me this past month after I had my phone stolen at Coachella. The misplaced melancholy and fear that I felt after losing my phone as an extension of my self-worth is a sad metaphor for the unhappiness people feel on the current iteration of our internet. Is the way that the consumer internet exists right now the way that things should be?“Hey Jo, take a snap of us!” “Oh sure, let me get my phone…” I ...
my phone was stolen at Coachella and it opened my eyes to what was wrong with web2
Web2 Social Media was designed to kidnap our attention. This reality was made crystal clear to me this past month after I had my phone stolen at Coachella. The misplaced melancholy and fear that I felt after losing my phone as an extension of my self-worth is a sad metaphor for the unhappiness people feel on the current iteration of our internet. Is the way that the consumer internet exists right now the way that things should be?“Hey Jo, take a snap of us!” “Oh sure, let me get my phone…” I ...
