With crypto, we now have a debt-free engine that, combined with Web3, smart contracts, and gamification, provides a new, truly democratic, financial … - Salim Ismail

The educated person who's been promised a future and is watching the ladder collapse — that's the real problem. We need new ladders for meaning, agency, status, and contribution.

In 2013, Reddit, which has just fifty-one employees, most of whom manage the platform, saw 731 million unique visitors cast 6.7 billion votes on 41 million stories.

matrix structures is that, over time, power accrues to the horizontals. Often, HR or legal have no incentive to say yes, so their default answer becomes no (which is why HR is often referred to as "inhuman resources"). It's not that HR people are bad people. But, over time, their incentives end up at cross-purposes with those of product managers.