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Some questions to ask in your next 1:1s

Being stuck within the Groups system was constraining, and most users had trouble discovering groups, joining them, and finding items. This meant that we faced the twin marketplace issues of limited seller liquidity and difficult buyer discovery. Buyers told us in research studies that they couldn’t find the items they wanted, and sellers felt that... See more

I think a lot of the value of great reporting or great content online comes from the personality or the perspective. It’s the writers that I keep coming back to over and over and over again on a topic and sure, maybe GPT-4 is going to be able to mimic the ideas well enough that it’s hard to tease them apart. But in general, there are either

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The lesson here is that a lot of the value unlocked by the IoJ will be in fundamentally new, non-skeuomorphic, use cases that deliver value in ways that are both compelling & novel themselves.

Freemium business models gate features and/or usage while allowing people to experience the basic toolset for free, forever. These products do best when they gate access to information.

But on Substack, you’re paid monthly, creating pressure to churn out regular updates. Since it’s impossible to have interesting novel thoughts twice a week every week, this also means writers skew heavily towards summarizing the news, pumping out quick takes, or riffing on whatever they read on Twitter.