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Introduction: If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will. -- Steve Jobs America as the New World has a long history of inspiring Utopian communities . Early experiments were famously religious. But there have been many others as new waves of thought have inspired people to organize and try something different. In the 1840s Transcendentalists, believing the true path lay in the perfection of the individual, created intentional communities like Brook Farm . We've also seen socialist , anarchist , hippy , and virtually every other kind of Utopia in-between. Psychologist B.F. Skinner wrote an infamous book, Walden Two , with a more "scientific" take on creating a Utopian community and Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged had her free market version. I believe in startup organizations we see the modern version of Utopian energy in action. We now call it by names like "culture hacking", but the goal is the same: to create a new form of human community to achieve a profound go
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7 You may think startups are only about money, and they are about the money, but they are also about building something great and creating lasting value. [sent-12, score-0.08]
8 And the startup industry is completely self-concious and about its structure and goals. [sent-14, score-0.21]
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10 Almost taking on a religious tinge, as if a new social structure was being formed. [sent-19, score-0.174]
11 So I was interested to see in Amazon: We cut prices to scare ourselves into innovation how Amazon's fecundity is no accident. [sent-20, score-0.599]
12 Amazon uses purposeful culture hacks to create a stunning stream of new features and prevent the culture rot that normally infects larger successful companies. [sent-21, score-1.138]
13 What culture hacks does Amazon use that you might be able to learn from? [sent-22, score-0.464]
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