smallness
in defense of smallness, because we don't need to build an empire. we just want to live lives that are rich in meaning.
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smallness
"there’s room for a different approach. A social network that’s both niche and healthy. A social network that’s more magazine than platform."
Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need... See more
Vicki Boykis • Good things don't scale
a wonderful list of impressive things accomplished by small teams.
I have some great memories of talking about “investing in things that doesn’t change”
A sense that small things tend less to dramatic changes
https://world.hey.com/dhh/there-are-no-secrets-left-c8c95de0
scalability ignores the negotiations between individual elements and is predicated on hierarchy, isolation, and the commodification of nature. Instead, synthetic biology should model itself on the living world, which takes a collaborative approach to survival and allows for fruitful cross-contamination of ideas.