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The platform can be thought of as a combination of Quirky (product development) and Kaggle (incentive competitions), but for cars and other vehicles.

Trust Beats Control and Open Beats Closed As we saw with Valve software, autonomy can be a powerful motivator in the age of the Exponential Organization. The Millennial generation is naturally independent, digitally native and resistant to top-down control and hierarchies. To take full advantage of this new workforce and hang on to top talent, companies must embrace an open environment. Google has done just that. As we outlined in Chapter Four, its Objectives and Key Results (OKR) system is fully transparent across the company. Any Googler can look up the OKRs of other colleagues and teams to see what they're trying to achieve and how successful they've been in the past. Such transparency takes a considerable amount of cultural and organizational courage, but Google has found that the openness it engenders is worth any discomfort.

There is a fundamental DNA path dependency here. Are you primarily a community or are you primarily a company? The reason you have to ask yourself this is because sooner or later the two will come in conflict. We [DIY Drones] are primarily a community. Every day, we make decisions that disadvantage the company to bring advantage to the community.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

when you move from point A to point B, you can then see point C. But you can't see point C from point A. Iteration/experimentation is the only way.

Un nuevo fenómeno de Silicon Valley llamado TechShop es un ejemplo más de esta tendencia. De la misma manera que los gimnasios utilizan un modelo de membresía para adquirir máquinas de ejercicios de elevado coste que pocas personas podrían permitirse tener en casa, TechShop colecciona maquinaria de fabricación de elevado coste y ofrece a sus subscriptores un acceso ilimitado a sus activos por una pequeña tarifa mensual (de 125 a 175 $, dependiendo de la localización). TechShop no es ni una novedad ni una idea sin importancia. El famoso dispositivo de pago Square, por ejemplo, nació como un prototipo en TechShop. El creador de Square no tuvo que adquirir ninguna maquinaria de precio elevado para construir su prototipo — simplemente se unió a TechShop y utilizó los activos a demanda — . Square ahora procesa más de 30.000 millones de dólares anualmente y su valor supera los 5.000 millones de dólares.

Today, if you're not disrupting yourself, someone else is;

Martin Seligman, un líder experto en psicología positiva, distingue entre tres estados de felicidad: la vida placentera (hedonista, superficial), la buena vida (familia y amigos) y la vida con sentido (encontrar un propósito, trascender el ego, trabajar por un bien mayor). Las investigaciones muestran que la generación del Milenio — la de los nacidos entre 1984 y 2002 — muestra cierta orientación a buscar significado y propósito en sus vidas.4 A lo largo y ancho del mundo, sus aspiraciones son cada vez mayores y, de tal modo, se sienten atraídos como clientes, empleados e inversores a organizaciones con iguales aspiraciones

Trust Beats Control and Open Beats Closed

in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

It is our opinion that in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

With crypto, we now have a debt-free engine that, combined with Web3, smart contracts, and gamification, provides a new, truly democratic, financial and regulatory regime that will dominate human engagement over the next decades.

The physical world is still there, of course, but our relationship to it is changing fundamentally.

tu lista de tareas pendientes tiene que ser tan adictiva como tu muro de Facebook

Millennials — those born between 1984 and 2002 — are showing an orientation towards seeking meaning and purpose in their lives.