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An incumbent like Meta - with its cash cow “blue app” and Instagram, and its under monetized other products - is an interesting player in the metaverse because it can afford to experiment with new monetization models and user-incentives under some of its massive digital-first product lines (Oculus, Whatsapp, and Messenger), without jeopardizing its... See more
Ryan Selkis • Crypto Theses for 2022
Airbnb systematized and commoditized trust, turning it from a unique personal quality into an impersonal feature that could be “attached” to anyone.
Dror Poleg • The Token Society
Subscriptions are attractive because they are predictable, but not every product or service is a natural fit for subscription.
Alex Taussig • Firehose #182: 💰 Subscription addiction. 💰
Mediocre computing is computing that aims for parity with mediocre human performance in a realish domains where notions of excellence are ill-posed.
Excellent computing is computing that aims to surpass the best-performing humans in stylized, closed-world domains where notions of excellence are well-posed.
Venkatesh Rao • The Dawn of Mediocre Computing - by Venkatesh Rao The Dawn of Mediocre Computing
A trend I saw in 2019 was to implement carbon offset charges, even in small businesses. People started donating based on revenue during a promotion, or planted a tree for every $10 they made. A good initiative!
Dominic Monn • Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition – Dominic Monn
successful companies don’t succeed because they have the right strategy at the beginning; but rather, because they have money left over after the original strategy fails, so that they can pivot and try another approach. Most of those that fail, in contrast, spend all their money on their original strategy—which is usually wrong.
Clay Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
Minimal friction. You can follow links from site to site, without barriers. You don't have to decide which sites to subscribe to. If someone sends you a link to an article, you can read it.
Jeff Kaufman • Why I Work on Ads
Quotes and Human Behavior
