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If subscriptions work, they allow companies to consolidate market share and drive out competitors before loyalty wears thin, the impotence of voice becomes apparent, and customers head for the exit. If this approach succeeds, as examples like Amazon suggest, customers might find that when their loyalty finally fades, there’s nowhere else to go.
Drew Austin • Loyalty Tests — Real Life
When a community is growing in a healthy way it can feel painfully slow. We’re so used to marketing funnels! At this point, I see two things happen 1) we abandon the community or 2) use our marketing chops to flood new members in. We abandon our trees or over seed our gardens!
Danielle Maveal • Creating Abundant Communities
Nothing matters if you're not proud of it.
The Head of Design At Airbnb printed out 3 questions for designers at Airbnb to answer:
1) Does it work?
2) Does it scale?
3) Are you proud of it?
If the answer to #3 isn’t a resounding “yes” then they won’t ship (even if metrics suggest you should)
Future of Media and
"Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
-Charlie Munger
At age 26, 59% of engineering and computer science grads work in occupations related to their field of study. By age 50, only 41% work in the same domain, meaning a full ~30% drop out of the field by mid-career
Nnamdi Iregbulem • Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
reading, watching & listening to and Modern Life
fascinating historical perspective.
our ancestors experienced day-to-day unpredictability (you could die from childbirth, starvation was a constant threat, etc…) but global stability (if your parents were peasants, you’d prob be a peasant).
modern humans inverted that - routine defines us but there is global instability (the world is constantly changing - technology, climate, politics)
other weird things about modern life:
children teach their parents how to use tools that are critical to thriving in modern society, a complete inversion of the transmission of knowledge through generations.
non-local social comparison - we compare ourselves to billions of people, not a few hundred in close proximity to us.
we are distanced from nature, whereas for generations before survival was tied to understanding the natural world.
Knock
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There are great opportunities in front of us, for anyone whose eyes are open.
Friction (scarcity) allows for return on capital.
Lack of friction (abundance) allows for compounding growth.
The great businesses are the ones who harness both.
Technology changes where the friction is located.
Scarce resources become abstracted and turn abundant.
New scarce
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