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Ambient and in workflow I can conjure up my personal search bot via browser extension to generate information without leaving my workflow or opening a new browser, or like Alexa, has ambient presence and lives intelligently as a layer on top of daily activities.

Instagram's original product principles are beautiful in their simplicity: 1. Community first 2. Do the simple thing 3. Do fewer things better 4. Ride the wave

Aggressive growth projects often lead to UX cruft, slowly degrading long-term user engagement and retention. Yes, you can move short-term metrics by throwing a blocking modal that up-sells a subscription (yes newspaper websites, I’m talking about you!) but how long before that alienates long-term users?

One pattern that seems to easily meet the first three objectives is providing benefits to holders: if you hold at least X coins (where X can go up over time), you get some set of services for free. MiamiCoin is trying to encourage businesses to do this, but we could go further and make government services work this way too. One simple example would... See more

People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. The premise for web1 was that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content as well as a publisher and consumer of infrastructure... If there’s one thing I hope we’ve learned about the world, it’s that people do not want to run their own servers.

Albert Schweitzer got it exactly right. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”

If we're really using Roam to regulate the emotional experience of not knowing where to put a note, then that suggests a lot of product changes Roam could make to perform better at that job.