Cultivating Flow, Web3 Potential, and Ranking Creator Platforms

Here's everything we published this week.

November 14, 2021

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Hello, and Happy Sunday!

This week we have some great pieces on web3 (answering crypto critics, and exploring new ideas for DAOs), web2 (creator platforms), and a nice little throwback to a workplace productivity classic: flow. Let's dive in!

Cultivating Flow

Flow State / Superorganizers

Flow holds a semi-mythical status within the productivity community. This state of “deep work” allows you to not only experience intense focus toward the task at hand, but also to feel happier and more fulfilled.

This week on Superorganizers, we have a guest essay from the creators of flowstate.fm to take us back to the basics of understanding flow, using Csikszentmihalyi’s book to help us debunk falsehoods, and find flow in our own work lives.

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The Two Biggest Critiques of Web3, analyzed

Nathan Baschez / Divinations

Web3 has a lot of haters, and sometimes, those haters make some interesting points. Two of the most common arguments are 1) Pretty much anything that can be done on a blockchain can be done in web2 and 2) If web3 is so great, shouldn’t it have been further along by now with real use cases?

Nathan analyzes these two common critiques using a classic business strategy framework from Clay Christensen and helps us understand what they might be missing.

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