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Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
This is partly why I find Lean Startup Evangelical Fundamentalism a little weird. Just in case you’re not familiar, “lean startup” is the meme-ified idea that entrepreneurs should build “Minimum Viable Products”, expending the least amount of resources to build the things that are most perfectly adapted to the ‘market fit.’
read.lukeburgis.com • Why We Need More Omakase Creators
It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type up a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don't want a capital, if I'd wanted a capital, I would have typed the capital.
George R.R. Martin
The beauty of finished software
In a world where constant change is the norm, finished software —a software you can use forever with no unneeded change —provides a breath of fresh air. It’s a reminder that reliability, consistency, and user satisfaction can coexist in the realm of software development.
This has been the status quo for a while — either you have entirely open, non-commercial projects like Wikipedia or you have unilaterally owned projects like Eureka. But now, thanks to lower costs of building products and lower costs of implementing community ownership, we are starting to see a new mode: community owned peer production.
Joey DeBruin • Coase's Penguin is learning to fly: Building the Wikipedia of the future
In a give-to-get model, you have to create to be able to consume. Why is this good? The canonical 90/9/1 rule of big social says 90% of users lurk, 9% contribute a little, and 1% a lot. Give-to-get means every active user contributes. It’s a mechanic that encourages presence and participation—something core to ritual apps... BeReal makes you post... See more
Every • In the Next Era of Social, Build Rituals, Not Habits
Users are recommended books in genres they’ve never touched, sometimes simply because two books share a word in the title.
Sarah Manavis • Why Goodreads Is Bad for Books
You can be world class as either an agglomerator or a specialist - Sequoia is the former, Benchmark is the latter. But being in the middle - neither an agglomerator nor a specialist - is very challenging, and may be no man's land in today's environment.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • Agglomerators vs. Specialists
Because of their marginal costs, atom-based businesses have a greater lock-in effect and thus defensibility.