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In a multi-pronged competition with Amazon, Shopify has to shed its DNA as a technology company and become a consumer company. Impressively, Shopify did another shift well enough - from being a tech company to an infrastructure company. It's preparing for the next orbital shift - moving from being an infrastructure company to a consumer company.

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. 

The internet was dramatically increasing our ability to know about things, while our ability to change things stayed the same, or possibly shrank right in front of us. I had started to feel that the internet would only ever induce this cycle of heartbreak and hardening—a hyper-engagement that would make less sense every day

FreeWill (Seed Stage) is closing this gap by providing free online wills and estate planning. FreeWill has an innovative business model. Customers set up their will at no cost; charitable organizations, meanwhile, pay FreeWill recurring revenue to access FreeWill’s customers, who are given the option to allocate a portion of their estate to... See more

Substack’s margin is Facebook’s opportunity.