Every Day a Groundhog Day

It also means that increasingly the real value or trick won’t be in blowing up, though of course, it will only get harder and harder to do so as we continue to exponentially increase our output of content, but rather in holding on to the 15 seconds of fame once we have it.

Every VC and executive has been trained to ask about and judge businesses based on their go-to-market and distribution strategy but perhaps they should start focusing on their stay-in market and retention strategy more deeply.

As the internet creates endless niches, our tendency towards simplification and safety in numbers is flattening differences and aggregating behavior, just in a more rapid fashion than ever before and at a far greater scale.

We are fundamentally lazy and as such, increasingly the most valuable products or businesses in the world are predicated on reducing that cognitive friction and making those choices for us. But beyond that, we are also fundamentally happier being in a group than out on our own. So more than just being useful then, the top 10 list, I suspect, is fun... See more