Everything Looks The Same

exploring the endless forces luring towards conformity and sameness

Rival products (burgers, pop songs, political parties) tend to grow more alike over time, because creators copy more successful rivals to replicate their success and steal their customers/audiences.

Paradoxically, this increases the value of being different.

Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles

AAlara

this examples why tiktok, spotify, instagram, and twitter all start to look the same - pivot to video, stories, etc…

The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector

Kelsey McKinney defector.com

sari

andrea

The tyranny of consistency

Robert Stribley uxdesign.cc

aandrea

Develop an eye to know when to break away from consistency

Imagine working at Meta and making $1m/year in total comp as a product manager and your entire job is to just copy and paste things from other apps. That’s the dream

Alex Cohen twitter.com

sari

One philosophical objection I have to Silicon Valley is that people are very derivative. They tend to rely too much on what other people do. When everyone relies on what everyone else does, you end up getting a deeply mimetic-culture where no one thinks for themselves.

phoebe

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Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?

anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic.

social media is robotic, formulaic. everything looks the same. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

what a computer can never reproduce is organic human emotion. it cannot recreate authenticity.

-paraphrased from Mango Street

Alara