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The biggest risk to Substack isn’t that Gmail changes its algorithm or that readers set up automatic forwarding and share accounts. It’s that years from now, each author will have built up so much content that a reader can pay a 1 month subscription, download the archive, and be set on reading material.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Howard Aiken—the inventor of the earliest general purpose computer—was never worried about people stealing his ideas. “If your ideas are any good” he’s quoted as saying, “you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” And yet, we think that the moment that we hit the dance floor, all eyes will be on us. The moment we hit publish, the world will ta... See more
Zac Solomon • Freedom in Obscurity
this is why my best advice to anyone building anyone is this: part from the assumption that nobody cares, and your job is to make them care.
Anyone who attempts to serve a customer at a new level of quality and scale is an entrepreneur. Anyone who does not, is not.
No tradeoff between quality and scale
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Function of Beauty
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It seems to Zak and me that for most companies to thrive over the long-term, one constituency must be looked after before all others and, contrary to what some on Wall Street or in Westminster may suggest, that constituency is the customer.
Short-term vs Long-term - The I.G.Y. Foundation
“A startup, if it’s lucky, creates magic, turns that magic into dollars, and transitions to life as a successful Big Muggle Company, capable of enormous profits and power but no longer able to conjure magic.”
Anthony Hobday • Blog
goal: build magic-scale organizations
Zero marginal transaction costs allow distributed ownership and infinite versioning: a digital commons.