But any attempt will need to compete for attention from the ultimate discovery network, Instagram, or the ultimate search engines, Google and Amazon. And right now, at launch, the Shop app is nowhere close to the magic of either of them.
In a way, UI/UX preference acts as a filtering function for admission to a world or universe, a badge of citizenship. For many millennials who grew into adulthood with Facebook, the feed and its extended family of apps now feel like a cluttered junkyard (so the FB ecosystem needs a refresh). The frenzied logic of Snapchat keeps Gen Z engaged and... See more
The Vox Doctrine
Media companies are profiting from a crisis they helped create. Vox/Recode dismissed the pandemic, scorned precautions, told you not to wear masks, even attacked philanthrophy!
Now they're setting traffic records.
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So it’s fitting that exactly a decade later, we’ve come to another watershed moment. Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.
Saying no is incredibly hard in the early stages of company building, and there's this saying that the power of great companies is those that say no to good ideas and say only yes to great ideas, and there's lots of great leaders that have talked about how constraints lead to really creative thinking, and so the idea that you're going to say no a... See more