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After all, one of the hardest lessons we learned from that period: It wasn’t enough to build the app, you needed to also grow a critical mass of users. Without the right users there at the beginning, a user-generated content product would inherently be too shallow on content. Low engagement would lead to more low engagement.
Andrew Chen • What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago at andrewchen
LLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
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Religion is the best illustration of the elephant in the brain. We do not worship because we believe. We worship because it helps us as social creatures.
Robin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The second is more media than social. It’s driven by AI-powered and network-driven platforms that allow people to discover creativity, learning, and connection online. TikTok is an early iteration, untethered from a social graph and letting strangers connect across the globe.
Rex Woodbury • The Evolution of Social Media: Splitting Into Social and Media
Our theory was that people don’t exercise consistently because modern life is inherently disruptive and busy. Our mass-market solutions (fitness apps, classes, gyms) require more activation energy and self-discipline than is reasonable.
Mario Gabriele • The Prologue | Rishi Mandal on Building the Future 🏃🏽♀️
Longer-term, Stripe can do any of the following: