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Kernel | Taking Business Personally: A Conversation with Charles Broskoski

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Here’s a story you might find familiar: you sign up for a startup service one day. Let’s say, for the sake of this example, that it’s a social media network that lets you upload and share photos with your friends. You find this fun. You take photos of silly moments, moving moments, beautiful moments. The images spawn a culture unique to the platform. Memes become self-referential. More friends join, and so do extended family, celebrities, your favorite magazine. One day, a few years down the line, you look up and realize that it’s no longer the same service you signed up for. Your feed shows more brands than family, and you learn about your newborn cousin two weeks late. The people you’re following are posting sponsored content, or they’re not posting at all. You’ve been given an endless scroll, so you find yourself falling through hours of recommended videos of strange recipes and struggling to exit. It’s this feeling that Are.na, a platform for connecting ideas, is trying to avoid —

Kernel | Taking Business Personally: A Conversation with Charles Broskoski Issue 3 interview Taking Business Personally: A Conversation with Charles Broskoski written by Meghna Rao art by Lisa Yu Li Meghna Rao is an editor and writer from Queens, thinking about diaspora and technology. Charles Broskoski is the co-founder and CEO of Are.na, an online Montessori school for adults. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Here’s a story you might find familiar: you sign up for a startup service one day. Let’s say, for the sake of this example, that it’s a social media network that l

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