added by Max Beauroyre and · updated 8mo ago
Build Personal Moats
- Without personal moats, we may find ourselves in a perpetually evolving, seemingly more meritocratic game.
from Agency in the Age of AI by Anu
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Connect this to Erik Torenberg “How to Build Moats”
What others may see as a moat, we may more earnestly see as “stickiness” or “defensibility” rather than as an outright moat. As we wrote about in “What is a “Moat” and why does it matter?” , we define moats as “Proven, perpetuating and permanent unit economic advantages from peers within a competitive set” . These moats need to be root
... See morefrom Companies Build “Capabilities” Before They Build “Moats” by Rick Zullo
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- Every great product should have a moat, and careers are no different.
Product Tropes that Apply to Careers: Capitalize on unfair advantages, insights, or relationships. Disrupt orthogonally, often from below—try not to compete head on. When you’re younger, take more market risk; when you’re more experienced, take execution risk.from See your Career as a Product by Substack
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- However, a key risk with several of these startups is the potential lack of a long-term moat. It is difficult to read too much into it given the stage of these startups and the limited public information available but it’s not difficult to poke holes at their long term defensibility. For example:
- If a startup is built on the premise of taking base L
from AI Startup Trends: Insights from Y Combinator’s Latest Batch
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- When you make changes in your life, especially when learning new skill sets, you’ll have to cross a moat of low status—a period where you are bad at the thing or fail to know things that are obvious to other people.
It’s called a moat both because you can’t just leap to the other side and because anyone who can cross it has a real advantage. It’spos... See morefrom How to Be More Agentic by Cate Hall
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A looming question mark is how companies will build competitive moats; true tech differentiation is rare, and companies will need to find ways to stay ahead of competition, perhaps with network effects or with iterative loops of user engagement and product refinement.
from AI in 2023: The Application Layer Has Arrived by Rex Woodbury
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