2022-08-04

• The challenges of remote work culture around social trust resemble similar political problems faced by developing nations as they try to go from low social trust environments (only trust family/friends known for years) to high trust social environments (trust institutions/strangers in given position in addition to family/friends). Easier to trust a colleague to do good work when they are sitting right across from you in the office vs a zoom square. Interesting framing, not sure what it implies for tools would help with building productive remote cultures.
  
• I wonder to what extent real estate is still a good investment if you could pair it with excellent SEO. Buy some airbnb-type home in a place that has solid tourist facilities, buy up keywords on google to drive tourist traffic, have house prices increase, sell house or keep making rental income, rinse repeat.
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• I continue to wonder to what extent we just need new mediums of expression for people to send more important/meaningful messages
  • This feels like the kind of thing that could work, but doubtful people would pay for it upfront
    
  • Maybe tie it into a theraputic angle…? People are already willing to pay for that.
    
• Things to think about
  • are people making the kinds of videos that they want to?
    • maybe there’s room for an extension of stories that is more like a weekly newsletter
      
  • how to reach people that don’t have a single way to be reached
    
• Ok, but what if we approach this from the perspective of a garden.
  • What things will bloom
    
  • When will they bloom
    
  • What plants will go together
    
  • Ecosystem of connections and stuff (very woo, not defined at all)
    
• It’s annoying that the camera app itself doesn’t allow for programming/routing vids and stuff automatically
  • But i guess you can just make an app for that…
    
• The videos you see on IG rn are seemingly optimized for engagement bait. What else could they be optimized for?

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