Startupy Issue #2: a laid back newsletter about very serious ideas

Welcome to the Startupy newsletter, a laid back column about very serious ideas. Every week, we curate the hottest links from our universe and share them with you here. As a reminder, Startupy is a community-curated and owned search engine. Our curators organize, index, and interconnect the most meaningful tech, culture, and business insights - we're currently in private beta. If you're feeling the vibe, consider joining the membership to get unrestricted access to our collective intelligence engine.

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🪐 HOT LINKS IN OUR UNIVERSE

Managing People by Andreas Klinger

It's a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work. Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact. Remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.

🕺 Curated in Management and Leadership & Hiring Advice

Three Theories for Why You Have No Time by Derek Thompson

Better technology means higher expectations—and higher expectations create more work… technology made it much easier to clean a house to 1890s standards. But by mid-century, Americans didn’t want that old house. They wanted a modern home—with delicious meals and dustless windowsills and glistening floors—and this delicious and dustless glisten required a 40-to-50-hour workweek, even with the assistance of modern tools.

🕺 Curated in Future of Work & Calendar and Time Management

Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer

In the end, what’s most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.

🕺 Curated in Future of Hospitality & Management and Leadership

The Pursuit of Emptiness by John Perry Barlow

We think AOL and the local mall are communities. We think that Disney, the corporation, is a story-teller. And, to the extent, we are connected at all, it is largely by mass media like television, which, as Bertrand Russell pointed out, "allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone."

💃 Curated in Belonging, Personal Development & Happiness

Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways? C. Thi Nguyen on The Ezra Klein Show

In so many games, the target isn’t the point. The point is this rich experience along the way. And I think a lot of the mistakes we make with games is we get into these things and we forget about these larger purposes. The fact that they can be fun. The fact that they can be beautiful. We just hyper-obsess and hyper-narrow on the product at the end. And I’m worried that in a lot of other cases, this attention to product over process is poisoning us and making us miss out on possible pleasures.

🕺 Curated in Future of Gaming, Game Design, Embedded Gaming & Tech and Society

🔥 POPULAR RABBIT HOLES

Paul Graham

Top Author → Inspiration, Founder Mindset & Startup Advice

Creator Monetization

167 connections → 93 content, 60 companies, 14 related topics

Infrastructure for Communities

203 connections → 45 content, 145 companies, 13 related topics

Remote Work

140 connections → 61 content, 70 companies, 9 related topics

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🌱 COMMUNITY HEALTH

Welcoming Danielle Vermeer, Sterling Proffer, Jacob Borgeson, and Kasper Jordaens to our curator community this week and virtual high-fiving Ajinkya Wadhwa, Alex Wittenberg, and Lillian Sheng for their contributions.

210 contributions this week

610 connections this week

518 highlights this week

✨ CURATOR SPOTLIGHT

Why is post-individualism interesting?

The internet made it possible for communities to become something we are not necessarily born into but can choose voluntarily. The idea of post-individualism builds on that evolution and defines our identities as a mix of individual traits and attributes we gain through the communities we’re part of.

This is interesting because web3 allows us to opt-in and out of value systems that contribute to understanding who we are and what is important to us.

A podcast worth listening to?

Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Metalabel, perfectly explains these ideas in episode 36 of the On The Other Side Podcast.

Things worth reading and watching?

This may be the end for me…(I'm Sorry)

Much has been written about the loneliness, mental health issues and absurdities of the creator economy, but this video made me especially sad. Chico is fine though and came back 3 weeks later.

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Jia’s 2019 collection of essays is still a great example of a millennial's reflection on the internet shaping our sense of self. Who’s going to write the 2022 version of this?

Inventories, Not Identities by Kei Kreutler

A glimpse into the technical infrastructure necessary to support the collection of identities navigating the highly varied contexts of web 3.0 such as metaverses, multiplayer games, DAOs and NFTs.

Projects worth following?

Metalabel

A modern framework of the “label” where a group of people team up under a shared purpose to create public releases that manifest their point of view.

Channel

A different answer to the same problem, Channel aims to build tools to help creators join forces.

Elara

A metalabel (!?) I’m currently excited about. I bought the eggplant hat.

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