Software started out being specific — designed just for one person even — then expanded to a broader audience by trying to appeal to everyone and losing its identity in the process. In the wake of the uniform brand identity crisis in the tech industry, I believe we need to return to specificity in order to appeal to users more broadly.
Chris Dixon: "This should be a golden period for creative people. There are eight billion people internet-connected. You only need a thousand to make a living. This should be the greatest time in history for creative people. And I think we might have finally figured it out."
Annual plant-based food retail in the United States is now topping a US$5 billion in total, which reflects a strong 18.4% growth on a year-on-year basis.
Monetization of publicly accessible written content has never had a strong basis on the internet, since it suffers from the public goods problem. As publishing has moved online, funding for high-quality, long-form writing has broken down.