But a shift has happened nonetheless: the Internet used to reflect our real-world lives and the physical world. Increasingly, our real lives and physical worlds are just a reflection of our digital ones.
...the slowness in the ACH system was a tax on the most vulnerable Americans - if you’re living paycheck to paycheck and something catastrophic happens, and you need to access to funds really quickly, you’re either paying a really high fee or its just not happening for you. And heaven help you if it’s the weekend.
Overall, it's pretty clear that in the modern economy, measuring output in terms of "product units" is very often Voodoo. In some cases it can be done simply, like how many bathroom mirrors of a given side are produced. But in the cases of medical care, cars, TVs or phones, where the product itself is ever changing and evolving, there is no simple ... See more
I’ve talked a bunch about how I think that we should design our computing platforms around people rather than apps and I guess that’s sort of what I’m talking about. On phones today, the foundational element is an app, right? That’s the organizing principle for kind of your phone and how you navigate it. But I would hope that in the future, the org... See more