Professional Development – 2022 – Week 19

False positives — an unrepresentative sample, too little data, or incorrect feedback that gives you confidence in something that’s just not true
Biased representatives of the population — getting feedback from only some of your audience can mislead you how good/bad something is in general
Non-negotiables that can’t grow or be replicated — for example, if you have to make everything by hand, it will be too expensive (or impossible to find the people to do it)
Negative spillovers — secondary effects of your efforts, for example a factory that pollutes the air
The cost trap — ongoing operational costs will typically make up most of the cost over a project’s lifetime

Define the business case for investing in documentation
Create a project brief for the proposed change
Consider the authoring experience, the discovery experience, and the administration experience
Choose a strategy for implementing the process change — follow the pain, stop the bleeding, find ways to nudge

At first there’s a mutual need — users need to be seen, platforms need users to grow. Then typically what happens is the platforms do whatever they want at the cost of the users.
Lock-in is an issue, where creators are now stuck with going to these mega-platforms because otherwise they’ll never make it on their own. Because of the power mismatch, the mega-platforms can screw over the users.
Governance tokens issued to content creators can help. Smart contracts prevent either side from changing the terms, if the platform needs to shift when the producers don’t want to then they will have to buy the tokens from those producers, tokens could self-destruct if producers fail to participate in the democratic system, and there are ways to minimize gaming the system such as token trade lock-outs.

Geoff Mazeroff