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To be sure, the internet has made some brands stronger, particularly in domains of incomplete information where people don’t know each other very well. The more an industry is about signaling, the more brand matters. That’s why brands matter so much in industries like fashion and beauty. Signaling brands are context-dependent. Signaling brands thri... See more

Tight feedback loops are excellent tools for optimizing efficiency (eg, of understood production processes, operations, or distribution funnels). But if we’re dogmatic in adhering to a fixed feedback loop periodicity, we preclude ourselves from undertaking larger scale projects (the space program that reached the moon does not get fu

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The barrage of crap we see on the Web is a direct consequence of the current economic model, where Google sucks all the money from the space, leaving only spoils to content creators. If there is no good money to be made on a single article, people will be forced to make up for this with 100 worse ones, exacerbating the problem.

That’s my message to all of you: Find a better way.

When I worked in machine learning every day, I found a close analogue of this to be very true. A slightly better architecture tended to matter much less than getting better data. Or, at least, once I hit on a reasonable model architecture, I tended to do much better by cleaning and gathering more data than by optimizing the architecture.

To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”

The imperative of Disintermediation Theory? Don’t seek justice, seek disintermediation