Itay Dreyfus

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

Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.

A “small giant” is a company that chooses to optimize for mojo instead of growth.

So, small is good but doesn’t scale and can be overwhelmed by changes, and big is powerful, but ugly.

Crypto is a subculture. A self-contained universe, and a relatively small one.