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Re: Investing in Flow

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yeah, flyers, bulletin boards, etc. -- lot of this stuff, in a sense, you're confined/constrained to doing online things because presumably we don't own / manage / control the building, but we could either operate without the blessing of building management, or work with them. i'm guessing building management-type community-building software already exists -- i've used some of it to pay rent -- but nothing that actua…

Yeah, status quo is almost all apartments get a score of 0! OTOH, I did have some friends that lived in a giant apartment complex in Santa Monica that was one big debuached party 24/7. People who moved there knew that that's what they were in for. Not sure what conditions set that up. It seemed like the reputation of the building was self-sustaining. My concerns about the gamification are that it would be quite easy…

santa monica story is funny. and fun.

interesting tho if you think that certain buildings could have personalities -- oh, this is where the partiers live, hippies over there, capitalists over there, etc.

yeah - i can see the risk of creepiness from gamification, and just other stuff.

we could do something to try to set up guardrails, but lot of creepy folks out there, and others who just don't know how to act -- i.e. possibly unintentionally creepy, might be immature, just make a mistake, etc.

guardrails might be a 'School of (Apartment) Life' HOWTO Guide, with something like:

  - don't go into someone's apt, or let them into yours, unless/until you know them really well
  - don't be aggressive with asking about people's personal stuff -- take things slowly
  - don't shit where you eat (you are free, of course, to date / break-up with, marry / divorce the people you live with / near, but we STRONGLY recommend against it -- for various reasons -- read more...)
  - etc.

Re: Investing in Flow

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post #106

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Status quo is not ideal and I don't trust the government to do what is necessary to alleviate the situation. Let's see if innovation, driven by greed, can change it.

Greed created the problem. It will not fix it. We must form a functioning government.

There hasn’t been a single example of a government providing good housing at scale anywhere in the world though. If your target is effectively slums, then sure, form a government who has no incentive to compete for tenants with improvements.

Re: Investing in Flow

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post #62

I am surprised to see so many negative responses. I bet most of the people here agree 100% with the problems and structural shifts this memo identified, and that technological innovation in the housing space to facilitate both social cohesion and affordability would be a *very good thing*. Sure, Adam had some highly publicized issues at WeWork. Also, a16z is on a lot of people's shit list right now. Still, why do so…

Perhaps it's because:

[1] Marc Andreesen himself is NIMBY. Which is what is contributing to the housing problem across the USA (and parts of Europe). The inability to build new housing leads to the insane property pricing and the very housing crisis that they are trying to solve https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...

[2] Adam Neumann is a self dealing grifter.

You have two dishonest actors proposing a solution for problems they may be causing directly...

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