Communities Aren’t Buckets -- They’re Clouds

The rise of side hustles and the emergence of polywork in DAOs are part of the same macro-trend.

The future of work is coming, and we are all its contributors.

helping people access and combine the clouds of their lives will be increasingly important for builders to consider.

Twitter is still the most important platform for web3: because people are able to more fluidly manage their own interest graph, Twitter becomes a single destination to which you go to stay up to date and connect with everything and everyone you care about.

Optimal distinctiveness is the theory that layering multiple affiliations into one identity can be predicted both mathematically and intuitively; in essence, humans are always balancing the need for inclusion and the need for differentiation.

there are decades of research on how knowledge workers in a decentralized network become “optimally distinct.”

Polywork gives people the freedom to move and fluidly define their identity, and to explore and derisk their next step while keeping at least one foot on solid ground.

Employers may want people to work for them full time, but employees left to their own devices and in a more competitive market will actually prefer to work among multiple communities.

“Individuals have two fundamental and competing human needs — the need for inclusion and the need for differentiation — that can be met by membership in moderately inclusive (optimally distinct) groups.”