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Content and social are also unifying, with Twitch streaming and YouTube being the biggest video players. Meanwhile paid newsletters have taken off in a big way in the last two years. In content + community, an audience connects around a specific content producer through some platform.

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

What knowledge has the use of this technology disclosed to me about others? Is it good to have this knowledge?

The scene has become popular, and commensurate with that the quality has gone down. There’s an infinite number of fresh fund managers who will gladly deploy capital to these enterprise dabblers in the hopes of the team “figuring it out later”. Once an idea becomes popular, selection becomes harder.

Poparazzi seems to lack any of the hallmarks of anything lasting. There is nothing new to the mode, nothing that cannot be done elsewhere, nothing truly unique or interesting. Restricting what you can do in a social network works with the length of a video, but it doesn’t really work with photos. It’s just another app that will be gone in a few... See more

These are transient opinions about a hurriedly launched product. But what's interesting is to lift the curtains to see how the product could evolve and why the start is important for Shopify. IMO, Shop is the future of Shopify.

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.

Market-protocol fit can be divided into 3 conceptually distinct phases: