Silicon Valley s Mission Protocol Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass Quillette

No hashtag coders. No message-board threads about anti-racism or neo-pronouns. No open letters meant to get someone fired for a decade-old tweet. No politics. As Armstrong put it in his famous (or infamous) September 27th, 2020 blog post, business should be mission focused. A software developer explained that the conciliatory approach has become too costly: The Slack shit, the company-wide emails, it definitely spills out into real life, and it s a huge productivity drag.

In October, a pseudonymous group inspired by Coinbase s Brian Armstrong came together under the banner Mission Protocol, with the aim of getting other companies to start putting aside activities and conversations outside the scope of their professional missions. ( Mission focus doesn t mean being apolitical, they note. It means being political about the mission. This mission is what you came together to accomplish, and this mission is what you re fighting for in your work on the project. ) Paul Graham, a famed venture capitalist and hacker philosopher, tweeted his support to 1.3 million followers. Melia Russell, who covers the startup beat for Business Insider, noted that startups were jumping into the Mission Protocol threads with a hell yes.

via quillette.com

Sounds like a good idea.