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The world is waking up to the reality that the platforms of today have become too powerful and value extractive. The platforms of tomorrow will find it more difficult to build sustainable businesses through data monopolisation that keeps users locked in. They will likely be more open and continue to work together with, not against their users.

The high social coordination cost of socialware often results in a gap between how a system is supposed to operate vs how it actually operates.

One of the worst trends in Silicon Valley is conflating the company’s culture with the company’s cosmetics. The flexible work hours, open desk layout, office designs, lack of office attires, and perks often paint the picture of the culture of the company. But that’s absolutely silly—no perk tells me anything meaningful about the company, other than... See more

“How do we find as many hosts that we can serve, me being the first. And what can we arm them with to reach a bigger audience and do a better job, and extract as much interesting knowledge as possible? The mindset doesn't need to be any more complicated than that. That will lead us in really interesting directions.”