The only large, long-term, productive social network to come out of the first 40 years of Internet may be Wikipedia. And possibly the SCP Foundation shared story universe.
@emollick
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Fair Layoff Communication Reduces Employee Litigation Risk
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Layoffs are terrible, but they are even worse if employees think the process was unfair & obscure. They act accordingly. In this study, 17% of people who felt that their employer was unfair about a layoff sued, compared to 1% of those who felt that the process was clear & honest
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Twitter’s Role in Fostering Innovation Through Open Knowledge Exchange
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I really would like Twitter, the platform & community, to thrive. It actually can boost innovation. Among the social networks, it is uniquely open. You can follow diverse people in other fields, which can help spark new ideas & insights. It has for me! https://
sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-tw
itter-users-can-generate-better-ideas/
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Memes as Organic Components Shaping Digital Environment Complexity
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“[Memes] appear as fundamental components of an organic process that affects and conditions the digital environment and produces evolving forms of visual and textual complexity.” pic.twitter.com/ufNdI8ElYF
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 novembre 2022“[Memes] appear as fundamental components of an organic process that affects and conditions the digital environment and produces evolving forms of visual and textual complexity.”
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Memepocalypse: exponential meme evolution and cultural implications
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In the end, we will be outnumbered by our own memes. Meme types are doubling every 6 months. And they are evolving more visual complexity over time. The memepocalypse is inevitable. https://
nature.com/articles/s4159
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Democracy increases moral universalism globally survey finds
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Giant worldwide survey looks at universalism (a willingness to treat strangers the same way you treat friends/community members) & finds 26% of people are strongly universalist & 18% are the opposite. Exposure to democracy causally increases universalism. https://
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
moral-universalism-global-evidence
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Research Papers on Click-through Behavior and Search Engine Data
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Paper on click throughs https://
arxiv.org/abs/2102.07385 Paper on Wikipedia being used by search https://
nickmvincent.com/static/wikiser
p_cscw.pdf
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Wikipedia’s Hidden Role in For-Profit Web Infrastructure
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A surprisingly large part of the for-profit web secretly depends on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia articles appear in 67%-84% of all search engine results & most info boxes
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Business Scholarship and Critical Evaluation of Tech Leaders
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I think some of the stuff you see as Musk criticisms were not meant as Musk criticisms (this wasn’t). But I also think it is important to make the business scholarship I share relevant, and to make sure people aren’t blindly emulating successful role models, so it does come up.
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Educated Populace Key to Long-Term Economic Growth
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Overall, though, an educated populace is the key to long-term growth.