- Nov 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Robert George has created the Academic Freedom Alliance, a group that intends to offer moral and legal support to professors who are under fire, and even to pay for their legal teams if necessary. George was inspired, he told me, by a nature program that showed how elephant packs will defend every member of the herd against a marauding lion, whereas zebras run away and let the weakest get killed off. “The trouble with us academics is we’re a bunch of zebras,” he said. “We need to become elephants.”
There's something intriguing here with this cultural analogy of people to either elephants or zebras.
The other side of this is also that of the accusers, who on the whole have not been believed or gaslit for centuries. How can we simultaneously be elephants for them as well?
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- Oct 2020
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medium.com medium.com
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On the right — that’s what democracy looks like. At City Bureau we believe the future of journalism looks more like this. It’s made of networks, it’s collaborative, it practices radical transparency and it equips people to be makers.
This chart is very reminiscent of a similar chart I saw just this morning that was looking at the differences between unicorns and zebras within an economic framing.
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- Mar 2017
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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shift resources from capturing knowledge — which we've been doing almost exclusively for the past five years — toward packaging and distributing knowledge
The ideas of "capturing" and "packaging" knowledge suggests a mindset based on monetizing rather than empowering knowledge makers. The new metaphor of zebra not unicorn startup business models suggests "profitable businesses that solve real, meaningful problems and in the process repair existing social systems" might serve us all better than Genius' "pivot" to media.
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Zebra companies are often started by women and other underrepresented founders.
Because folks outside the dominant POV see needs, opportunities, and possibilities that others don't?
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To state the obvious: unlike unicorns, zebras are real.
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We believe that developing alternative business models to the startup status quo has become a central moral challenge of our time.
Zebras: alternative business models
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When VC firms prize time on site over truth, a lucky few may profit, but civil society suffers.
connecting venture capital motivations with ill effects on the common good
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