tony hsieh – city experiment
via zappos et al..
three lines below from video i can’t find anymore:
Combining three c’s at the city level: accelerating collisions, community, co-learning.
ROC = return on community. A mini-bif every week – random collisions.
Four minute mile – people just need to believe it’s possible.
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Not only does Tony have an incredible drive toward delivering happiness, he dreams of fixing the world by fixing cities.
Hsieh’s working through Downtown Project, a company he created with $350 million to spend, to seed technology startups, invest in education and attempt to build a walkable, vibrant downtown.
“You can’t dictate what the neighborhood is going to look like. But you can definitely help support and accelerate people’s dreams and visions,” Hsieh says. “That is really our belief as to what drives our culture. It needs to be organic.”
A big experiment.. tony-hsieh-downtown-project-2012-12
He can see the world through a completely different set of eyeballs than most people in the world.
“Money is just a way for Tony to get to his endgame,” says Moore. “Money just doesn’t matter to him. If he only had a million dollars left, he’d spend $999,999 to make Vegas work. He would be just as happy with a dollar in the bank and being around people he cares about and care about him.”
More about Tony via bif site.
or find/follow him on wikipedia..
or here:
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Perhaps.. we add to Tony’s incredible experiment, by not just making it city wide, but also as the day.
ie: cure ios city as a means to undo our hierarchical listening
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book links to amazon
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my notes on bif 6:
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random – earlier posts on Tony:
saturday, july 16, 2011
tony hsieh
tuesday, june 28, 2011
seth godin
Tony Hsieh’s #1 of their 10 core values at Zappos:
deliver wow through service – random acts of wow
on creating a culture that can deliver happiness
friday, january 27, 2012
tony hsieh
Tony Hsieh of @WorldBlu certified @Zappos is definitely walking the talk with his latest startup plans….fb.me/1tqlFLiqz
thursday, august 2, 2012
tony hsieh
So many people when they go to the office, they leave a little bit of themselves at home, or a lot of themselves at home,” he says. “And while there’s been a lot of talk over the years about work life separation or work life balance, our whole thing is about work life integration. Because it’s just life – and the ideal would be if you can be the same person at home as you are in the office and vice versa.”
thursday, september 20, 2012
bif 8
wednesday, december 19, 2012
tony hsieh – vegas
a big experiment..http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-hsieh-downtown-project-2012-12
He can see the world through a completely different set of eyeballs than most people in the world.
“Money is just a way for Tony to get to his endgame,” says Moore. “Money just doesn’t matter to him. If he only had a million dollars left, he’d spend $999,999 to make Vegas work. He would be just as happy with a dollar in the bank and being around people he cares about and care about him.”
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Jacobs and Hsieh and gentrification:
http://www.shareable.net/blog/why-startup-urbanism-will-fail-us
Jacobs feared that this chaotic but human landscape was under threat, lost forever in the rationalizing schemes of planners who desired order rather than life.There is no place where one is allowed to be unproductive“Coworking” is, therefore, one of those words that needs to be approached with caution. Dismantling the walls of the traditional office space can be liberating and highly creative, but it can also deliver insecurity, division, and constant work. As community and business collapse into each other, does this leave any space in the city outside the marketplace? Is there anything except work, customer service, and the rules of 24/7 Capitalism?
Hassan Massoumi exclaimed after he lost his store when the lease was not renewed, “My wife and I came here when no one else would. For 10 years, we worked seven days a week — not one day of vacation. Then one day, Tony Hsieh’s people tell us to get out of there.”
And for those that remain: Does everyone have to buy their daily food from the Downtown 3rd Farmers’ Market? Much has been made of the private schools and nurseries such as the 9th that use revolutionary educational techniques, but these cost up to $12,000 a year. It is telling that little is said about the parents who can’t afford these rates. Despite the marketing, this is the opposite of a diverse neighborhood in the making. Like so many examples of gentrification, these are the subtle mechanisms that sort out the unwanted from the desirable.
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Eight Things Project 100 Tells Us About Mobility-as-a-Service
by Greg Lindsay mar 2014:
http://www.newcitiesfoundation.org/eight-things-project-100-tells-us-mobility-service/
so much good for people.. why for profit..? aren’t we just starting all over.. w/ new toys?
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sept 2014:
http://recode.net/2014/09/30/tony-hsieh-steps-down-from-lead-role-at-las-vegas-downtown-project
http://lasvegasweekly.com/as-we-see-it/2014/sep/30/david-gould-letter-resignation-tony-hsieh-DTP/
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http://recode.net/2014/10/01/the-downtown-project-suicides-can-the-pursuit-of-happiness-kill-you/
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http://downtownproject.com/statement/
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mar 2015 – toward self-organizing ness – within zappos – holacracy:
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may 2015:
210 opt out
reminds me of the partial ness of prospect ness
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http://www.businessinsider.com/zappos-employees-take-buyouts-new-self-management-structure-2015-5
1 yr to be 5, 1 yr to try commons, 100% ness.
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Zappos just pulled off the boldest management move, ever.
http://t.co/4rDrrs9AVK
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nilofer/status/598572905845432321
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posted on fb by Erica
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july 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/business/at-zappos-selling-shoes-and-a-vision.html
two years in, employees are leaving their original circles and taking on new roles. Priorities are shifting, and no one, not even Mr. Hsieh, is sure how to pay people at a company with no job titles and fluid roles.
aboriginals wouldn’t need a rule book.. no? that’s key.
maybe.
radical econ ness
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sept 2015
Video: Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Unconventional World buff.ly/1F0Uzsi
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jan 2017 – 5 years in
Since the 2014 layoffs, Downtown Project has continued to scale back its staff. Its head of operations, Michael Downs, explained last summer that 2018 was the new goal for Downtown Project to reach sustainability. But other than those two data points, Hsieh and his deputies have kept quiet on what the future holds for Downtown Project.
So what happens next? Increasing the Downtown Project’s chances of success in 10 or 20 years will require *allowing for more messiness and diversity of thought so that the very best ideas can truly come forward—and so that authentic community can build itself.
*try this man.. as it could be:
ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…].. a nother way
messaged Michael Downs
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CityLab (@CityLab) tweeted at 5:26 AM – 28 Feb 2019 :
Las Vegas is piloting countless new technologies in public spaces in a bid to boost its smart-city brand. Worrying about the risks will come later, @mslaurabliss reports. https://t.co/BRNG3B1tgG (http://twitter.com/CityLab/status/1101096401277251584?s=17)
no mention of tony/zappos.. but sidewalk and ny amazon reject mentioned
schools and homelessness big
there’s a downside to this iterative approach to city making: a lack of big-picture thinking can mean big-picture problems go unaddressed.
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house fire
rip
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be you. 