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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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"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."
The right small: a different perspective:
I say “the right small” because just “being small” or touting “the long game” can be as much of an error as going mass. Many confuse the passage of time for “the long game”
Apple encourages big thinking but small everything else.
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
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
You sometimes hear that a team built something great despite being small - we think that teams most often build great things because they’re small (with strong talent, passion, and chemistry, of course). So our hiring approach thus far is hiring only people that are so talented they could have been co-founders in another sequence of events. We’re... See more
Interview with Nathan Sharp and Ryan Olson
So, small is good but doesn’t scale and can be overwhelmed by changes, and big is powerful, but ugly.
Vicki Boykis • Good things don't scale
Both Bluesky and Lemon8 are designed to be black holes. We are all of us craving something new, places and spaces online that we can go to feel good and have fun and be inspired. These are normal human things to want; people want to be around each other. But it is almost impossible to create or maintain that kind of space if your company's goal is
... See moreKelsey McKinney • The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector
