Wtf?

A metaphor too is a kind of map; it may be all you have when you are first encountering a new territory shrouded in mist.

There’s another lesson here too: Train yourself to recognize when you are looking at the map instead of at the road. Constantly compare the two and pay special attention to all the things you see that are missing from the map.

This is my next lesson. If the future is here, but just not evenly distributed yet, find seeds of that future, study them, and ask yourself how things will be different when they are the new normal. What happens if this trend keeps going?

An architecture of participation means that your users help to extend your platform. Low barriers to experimentation mean that the system is “hacker friendly” for maximum innovation. Interoperability means that one component or service can be swapped out if a better one comes along. “Lock-in” comes because others depend on the benefit from your ser

How Jeff took the idea of Amazon as a platform out of the realm of software and into organizational design ought to be taught in every business school.

“Only around 15% of the money flowing from financial institutions actually makes its way into business investment,” says Rana Foroohar.28 “The rest gets moved around a closed financial loop, via the buying and selling of existing assets, like real estate, stocks, and bonds.” There is some need for liquidity in the system, but 85%? As we’ll see in t

videos, Spotify plots organizational culture along two axes: alignment and autonomy.

“Services do not only represent a software structure but also the organizational structure. The services have a strong ownership model, which combined with the small team size is intended to make it very easy to innovate. In some sense you can see these services as small startups within the walls of a bigger company. Each of these services require

“I used to create programs that did exactly what I told them to do, which forced me to think of every possible contingency and make a rule for every contingency. Now I build programs, feed them data, and teach them how to do what I want.”