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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant · GitHub
The dream of many companies is to graduate from making products to creating a platform. But when they do succeed (like Facebook), they are often not ready for the required transformation in their role; they have to act more like governments than companies in keeping opportunities “flat” and equitable, and hierarchy to a minimum.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
when I was earlier in my career I was searching for the answers or the way to do things - the binary - and I think anyone that's been doing this for a while learns that it's all nuanced. Silicon Valley has tended so far towards optimizing for graphs and metrics and if we can reel it back in a little bit at least as just one company I think that
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In the end, both web browsers and web servers turned out to be commodities, and value moved up the stack to services delivered over the true web platform.