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"Have a mission that matters"
Susan Wojcicki, Google employee #16, outlines the eight principles that guide her company’s decision-making.
1. Have a mission that matters
2. Think big, but start small
3. Strive for continual innovation, not instant perfection
4. Look for ideas everywhere
5. Share everything
6. Spark with imagination, fuel with data
7. Be a platform
8. Never fail to fail
via Think Quarterly
Notes
Defining the commons
A commons has boundaries, rules, punishment of free-riders, and social norms. A commons requires that there be a community willing to act as a steward of a resource.
Do you think of a commons in this way? I didn’t until I read David Bollier’s essay, The Commons as a Different Engine for Innovation.
A commons requires that there be a community willing to act as a steward of a resource.
A commons is not no ownership…in a way, it is total (shared, active, diligent) ownership…
Something to mull over.
Curious about cities, patterns, design, and marginalia. I use the word 'narrative' a lot. Emmanuel is Ghanaian, and a long way from home. Nice to meet you. (@equartey, Pinterest, email, ask)
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