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We should get past "want" and "contract" and into issues of value. What features will most improve our standing in the market? What features will most improve our reputation? Which features will cheapen us? Which yield little or no ongoing improvement? Which features will never really be used (AKA "checklist features")? Which should we farm out?... See more

Yahoo and AOL are already has-beens. They operate under the old rules. They control content and distribution and think they can own customers, relationships, and attention. They create destinations and have the hubris to think customers should come to them. They spend a huge portion of their revenue on marketing to get those people there and work... See more

It’s scary to think about machines replacing human creative output. But I tend to take the glass-half-full lens when it comes to innovation; I’m a perpetual technology optimist. Tools like DALL-E and Midjourney and Stable Diffusion will greatly amplify human creativity.

My general theory of social apps is that they compete on the basis of their network structures, rather than their content formats. The network structure—who sees what—is usually the main driver of value.

What would Scarcity-as-an-API look like?