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Instead of making all the hardware, Apple wants to create the OS for health, and own the critical chokepoint that all players must integrate with in order to get distribution. This feels like a distinctly Tim Cook contribution, a definite break from the past.

As social creatures, we are eager to show people we care so that we can benefit in times of need when we need them to care for us. E.g.: When someone is sick, we are more likely to cook something for them even if we could have just bought it from a store and given it to them.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks.

But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

While blogs could in theory be read by anyone with a browser, the technology that really mattered on the consumer side were RSS readers – and those were never adopted en masse.

Naval: "Today the frontier is on the internet and even on the internet, the frontier is within Web3 and crypto because it’s sort of the least regulated the most decentralized, most permissionless, 24x7x365 markets that are self-funding hackers from all around the world."

Lesson to companies: Open source everything, compete on quality, services, and models.

My Readwise, too, is filled with highlights. My Roam is bursting with ideas, quotes, and journal entries. So is my Evernote, my Notion, and my paper notebooks.

All of these things are containers for bits of my life. Right now those containers are lifeless, and everything that they contain is locked away.

AI is going to unlock these containers, a

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-It wants to expand to the west, but hasn’t made the proactive PR push that Zoom has to appease westerners security concerns.