We believe in fair and widespread access to our software, with an emphasis on ease-of-use. This also extends to social inclusivity, permissionless participation, interoperability, and investing in educational efforts.
Briefly on 'Status'
When I say Status, I don't just mean Status the app. I mean the organization and everything that we do and produce in this cosmos. The state of us. Status Republic. Status Network. "Company" and "product" misleading mental models.
Fair and widespread access
Works on many (old) devices and languages
Not just first-world users
Access not passive => run, use, study, contribute
Ease-of-use
Usable for non-experts
But also for us as contributors
Software compatibility
Social inclusivity
Encouraging people to participate
Rings on water, activation ladder
Barriers to entry and 1/9/90 rule
Everyone's job and self-interest
(power = responsibility)
How many people you onboarded?
How many issues (open problems) created?
Help in Status or online?
=> Concrete call to action people to dive deeper
Interoperability
Clear and well understood interface
Useful and used by others
Not isolated network
Educational efforts
Put time, money and energy into people learning
Bottleneck for crypto adoption
Get more people grok new paradigm
(openness, inclusivity)
Bigger contributor network != traditional hiring
Cost of people: ($, coordination, ~chat)
Core contributors as stewards
Funded by subset of people who value
=> Massive parallelization possible
See proof of concept called Linux
~1000 MAC, ~12 lieutenants, ~ 1 Linus
Shower thought 1
Measuring Inclusivity and executing on it relentlessly is the same thing as mass adoption of Ethereum.
Shower thought 2
Before mass adoption comes intense micro adoption.
It’s better to make something that 100 people love than something that 1,000 like. – YC motto
First Status CCs then larger Ethereum community
And/or: specific communities with a strong need
Retention is key
(inclusivity, continuance)
The value we generate is in the network.
If value is proportional to contributors N…
What is N now? Last month?
=> Importance of contributors metrics
Wall of shame
We don't know how well we are doing on this front
99% of our work is never incentivized in open form
App barely useful enough for even us to rely on it