Two people can talk themselves into doing something neither would do alone. This force has a dark side. It drives bullying and, for large n, mobs. But it also produces some amazing things.
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"Collaboration" is too weak a word for this. It doesn't capture the miraculous way in which it violates conservation of morale.
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Twitter has turned out to be a great way to channel the dark side of this force. Is it possible to create something that channels the good side of it? I don't know if there's an answer to that. But if there is, it would be one hell of a startup idea.
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Arguably GitHub and GitLab are this for code. So if there is an answer, better Twitter and more general GitHub/GitLab converge on it.
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At this point the YC partners are thinking "Noooo! Thousands more applications for collaboration apps!" Collaboration apps are indeed the base state of YC applications. But maybe that's because everyone senses there's something to be discovered here.
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I think Quora was always a great place to channel the good of the force, particularly in terms of building communities and great interactions
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Open Source software/Github channels that to some extent?
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We know twitter can get snarky and toxic, but maybe we are overlooking the good, for example, that Arab girl (sorry I forget her name) who recently who won asylum in Canada.
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Saw my friend find this through Entrepreneur First. EF didn't need people to come with an idea, or a team. People begin working on projects together, and often it leads to people creating startups finding someone else with complementary skills and supplementary morale.
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@peterthiel calls it “The Madness of Crowds” and it is what Silicon Valley used to have. Mobs are different from crowds from a jobs to be done perspective. If the collective job to be done is “bullying to feel superior” for a mob with low self esteem, they will continue to do it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Harnessing information velocity is a big mood. Especially in the digital age when things move so fast. HFT of the future won’t use numbers as much as sentiment.
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You need focus in a network to create something good. Example, FB is terrible, but I am in an active work group with people passionate about the HR topic and you feel the force. Hence GitHub, GitLab, Stackoverflow are great places: their focus separates the shaft from the grain.
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How about going to gym? Neither me nor my pal would go to gym alone but we do stay fit if we both go work out! http://Cult.fit is an Indian startup that banks on this social experience and runs chains of gyms as if running a community platform!
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Also in education, see Self Organized Learning Environments as explained by Sugata Mitra in a famous Ted talk on "Hole in the Wall".
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