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Intimacy Gradients: The Key to Fixing Our Broken Social Media Landscape
Un-breaking our social networks requires fundamentally different architectures than the defaults currently used to build most tools for coordination.
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What is coordination and why is it so important to effective networks?
As the world gets more complex and connected, calls to coordinate increase. But why? What does coordination allow us to do together that we cannot do alone?
Let's subvert the status pyramid
Myth: People at the top of any given company or power structure deserve to be there because they are somehow smarter and better than everyone else.
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ProSocial World
The science of ProSocial focuses on fostering social conditions where individual and group interests are integrated and balanced, such that cooperative behaviors are reinforced above selfish ones. Prosocial groups act as a single organism, rather than a collection of individuals.
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Omidyar Network
Aimed at building more equitable and inclusive societies, the Omidyar Network supports ecosystems of collaboration focusing on systemic leverage points. Activities range from grantmaking, to research, to community building, all woven together with powerful storytelling.
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Build Capacity: Scaling your network without burning out
For our event exploring how networks scale, we spoke with Jessie Huang, Jay Carmona, and our product strategist, Ana Jamborcic. We came away with three key principles to help a network grow: work out loud, uncover and celebrate invisible work, and create clear boundaries. Here are our takeaways.
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Clear the way: Engaging your network without burning out
We recently hosted an insightful conversation with three amazing network coordinators: Jia (Carol) Xu, Ph.D, Jay Carmona, and Lauren Hebert. We discussed relational resilience, the dreaded bottleneck position, and the party-like feeling you find in a healthy, engaged network. Here are our takeaways.
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