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These successful companies in most cases weren’t true platforms, but aggregators, locking in demand and exerting central control.

Media sites like Reddit, Twitter, and HackerNews are entropic, optimized for novelty, and “random”: the user is pulled into several different directions that limit their ability to progress at any one thing

Similarly, everything that you would ever want to learn is available online, for free. The challenge is not producing good content, it is creating content so great that it stands out from the noise. To that end, Iger wrote:

A major drawback of TokenPage is that a user can attack a page just by spending enough money. For example, a user could own the “Yankees” page and simply write “The Yankees suck”. Despite the low quality content, the page may retain its value to the malignant owner because others, like Yankees fans, would be willing to pay to “fix” the page.

how do you make people believe what you believe? How do you make people feel what you feel? In recent years I've gradually been overtaken by the idea that I can be most useful by being clear.