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Early at Instagram, I noticed a lot of value was placed on simplicity. One way that manifested was through a strong aversion to creating new surfaces. When you build a new surface, you force users to expand their mental model of your product. These new surfaces will also require additional entry points to help users find them. When you have a smal

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2021 was the year of profile picture (PFP) NFTs. Depending on how you value them, both CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club have total market caps (# of NFTs * price per NFT) of around $3 billion each. More than just a disconnected network of owners, though, the humans behind the NFT PFP formed communities, online and IRL. First, they met in Discor... See more

Me-As-A-Service

The Midwit Meme turns out to have a useful purpose, to remind us in a concise, memorable way that we cannot accept complicated solutions or explanations only because they feel smarter than a simple solution.

You can charge recurring revenue; after all, nobody wants to work with obsolete data. (This is harder in the early days, not because of lack of buyer appetite, but because your update cadence probably isn’t good enough.)

...a data backup and versioning solution for the long tail of these industries might work. It would differ with hyper-focused product marketing, bottoms-up adoption capabilities, and ease of ability to audit.

Consumers now expect tech-enabled services to be beautiful, easy to use, and centered around them. In an age where you can summon an uber in 3 minutes, people are logically expecting the same for healthcare. They’re also expecting services to be economical, especially as a new high deductible, out-of-pocket market is coming on board as deductibles ... See more

The reason newspapers are dying is because they’re stuck with massive fixed costs when the businesses no longer require them. It is expensive running a printing operation. Additionally, the infrastructure that gets built up to support hundreds of employees is also very expensive.