Alex Danco — Everyone's Job is World Building (EP.53)

Infinite Loops

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The biggest difference between the physical and digital world is the reorientation of value from production scarcity to demand/attention scarcity‘world building’ – you can’t speak to every customer all of the time but you can create an environment for the community to be connected and explore new challenges“The ability to create new challenges on the internet is unlimited” – Alex DancoMiddle management are the building blocks for world creating – the intermediary by constructing a reality that does not literally produce anything, maintaining the meaning to workThe Office is a great example of the comprehensive cynical theory of management and world-building to create a sustainable and meaningful workplaceMichael, Dwight, and Andy are in charge of ‘world building’ and perpetuating meaning to themselves and Dunder MifflinStatus is relative to the nature of the ‘world’ you reside inRich is not always interesting or unique, value and cultural relevancy is detached from reality but exclusively attached to your world

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As our recurring guest, Alex Danco of Shopify returns to Infinite Loops for the third time! We talk about: Age of Scarcity vs. Abundance Everyone's job is World Building Early days of the Internet 'The Office' — and it's parallels with the real world Hierarchies in corporate and cultural America and a LOT more! 
Follow Alex on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Alex_Danco and read his amazing essays at https://alexdanco.com/