social capital
There are fundamentally two types of power in any community: hierarchical & social. I reflect on what I’ve learned in the past year and how I think about the future of Icrontic.
Tag: Governance
valuing stakeholders
Generalists solve many early business problems, but you can summarize most of that list as “effects of inexperienced management.” By building a team of stakeholders instead, you create opportunities that might just save your organization one day.
collaborative authority
Web 2.0 enabled collaboration on a scale the world has never seen, but it only granted us collaborative labor, not collaborative authority… except for Wikipedia.
framed shackles
My annual “spring is here” post, wherein I connect a 6-year old task I finally completed to our country’s history, my home, and the work ahead of us.
governance retreats
It’s going to be especially important where your time, attention, and money goes over the next four years. These are a few areas I’m prioritizing.
legal entities
Working relationships between humans are far more durable & valuable than those between people and a legal entity. What’s a company, anyway?
feudalistic software
Have you ever noticed nearly all Web software is feudalistic? I share three important pieces from academics that capture the issue.
power structures
As a white dude who can smoothly “pass” as straight and grew up with strong, educated parents in a very stable environment with a strong safety net, I had the privilege of approaching social power structures however I liked. And I chose deeply irreverent.
open investments
I recently read “Why I wouldn’t invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one” by Wolfram Hempel and started to write a very long comment, but decided I’d just publish my own counterpoint instead.
platform syndicate
Platforms exist to remove interaction barriers between users. The folly of platforms is believing they can entirely rely on algorithms to control & shape human interaction.
social graph
When’s the last time you heard anyone talk about the “social graph”? It turns out it was all just another way to sell ads and nothing more.