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The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic

That experiment failed. Humanity does not want to be a global hive mind. We are not rational Bayesian updaters who will eventually reach agreement; when we receive the same information,  it tends to polarize us  rather than unite us. Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn’t take you out of your filter bubble — it

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“Good pricing is not about the price.  It’s about getting in each customer’s shoes and knowing exactly how they derive value from your product.” - Ian Clark

There are a few creative fields where copyright doesn’t apply. Comedy is one of these. You basically can’t obtain copyright on a joke, but if you start copying another comedian’s jokes you are going to get shunned from the community.

But the big picture question of how we orient ourselves is important. We shouldn’t be looking at our current energy usage and asking, “How can we get this much energy, but cleaner?” We should be looking at a 45-year energy diet and asking, “How can we use clean energy technology to shatter this barrier and open up incredible new vistas?”

Thanks to this powerful data network effect, Google was able to move down the stack. Google wasn’t “just a website” anymore, it became an aggregator that commoditized all other websites and made them layers on top of Google’s.