the goal is resonance, not scale
building and monetizing soulful businesses + brands where the goal is resonance, not scale
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the goal is resonance, not scale
Anti-network effects sometimes incorporate network effects of their own, but are generally more deliberate, intelligent, and actively governed. They are designed with scarcity in mind and are not so easy to starve out. They have long horizons and think many steps ahead in time, and can be spatially intelligent across entire topologies.
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Anti-Network Effects
via Daisy Alioto
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This begs the question: What might it mean to reimagine the form of these datasets in a world unconstrained by pressures like speed, scale, and universality? By looking to artists like Anna Ridler andothers for their rejection of “off-the-shelf” datasets, we can imagine what it would be like to curate datasets with much deeper intention and... See more
Lila Shroff • Datasets as Imagination
the magic of small data
Almost everything about growing the size and scale of your team has immediate and detrimental impacts to the thing that matters the most: building awesome products.
Unless you actively fight against these effects, you’ll wake up one day with a very effective bureaucracy machine and a very poor product (and a slow... See more
claire vo 🖤x.comBoth 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
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