Incentive Design

What really broke down in Google’s original vision is the incentive system they were building towards. There is a very specific subset of information you’re interested in “organizing” when you’re trying to serve the perfect ad.

Kyle Harrison • Building the Global Knowledge Graph: Dreaming the Dream for Roam Research

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There’s this cool idea in software that you “ship your org chart” called Conway’s law: “Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations” I’d offer a similar law for investors: “you… Show more

Patrick OShaughnessy

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and I’d offer a similar law for companies - your company mimics the incentives of its investors.

One thing that might surprise you about dominance is how companies get it. You might think it comes from rapacious win-at-all costs business practices, or from raising large amounts of money to snuff out competition. But we’ve found that the primary source for a company’s dominance is whether it designs its product and business model to be perfectl... See more

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