Beverley
@beverley
I am a Technology Entrepreneur quietly building humble but handy Internet businesses.
Beverley
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A renewed interest in human curation, a slow move away from big social, a clearer understanding of platform incentives, the economic feasibility of subscription businesses, and builders driven by a new set of values – combined, it feels like a good time for Internet businesses that are both human-scale and profitable.
I feel like tech-land forgets that you can build really big services businesses.
Nikhil Krishnan • "I Guess We're A Services Company"
Work matters if we do fewer things and stick to what’s needed, wanted, or useful. It’s also more likely to be exceptional. The mere act of creating something valuable can create joint satisfaction and meaning – for everyone. In this environment, work can both matter and be profitable.
Slow productivity is good business.
Being intentionally tiny enables us to develop products and services specifically tailored to audiences with diverse needs, providing a level of attention and care (and fun) that larger companies cannot offer or compete with.
André Chaperon • Part II: “Open World” Marketing
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
“One might propose that the entire profit motive behind the genre of creative work made up by brand, marketing, and design is to drive behavior change. We enable customers to do something new — whether by informing them that an option exists, or making it more attractive and effective to choose that option over others.”
The below quote by William S. Burroughs is only becoming more relevant with time:
'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'
'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'
substack.com • Home | Substack
Working in technology means one thing above all else: chasing scale. There is a reason why much of the tech world is obsessed with growth. Free from physical constraints, digital systems can scale to an incomprehensible size. The appeal of conquering the engineering, design and business challenges of mega-scale is strong, the rewards immense. But
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