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Could you imagine if Amazon gave its customers a 2% “cashback” on their purchases, but in the form of Amazon stock? Many of its first customers in the early 2000s would literally be millionaires in 2021, just for buying a few things a month.

- What’s one thing I need to know but don’t want to hear?

Another option is to reverse this, by offering hardware as a complement to an existing software business

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.

The impossibility of this burden to individually safeguard our data often reminds me of recycling. Because yes, there’s absolutely digital safety practices to lower our risk of exposure, but they don’t address the core issue that there’s too much data, too many data brokers, too many transactions hidden from the user’s view. And yes, we can and sho... See more

Bloomberg is an example of the classic Web 2.0 business maxim “come for the tool, stay for the network.” But the inverse trajectory, from which this essay takes its name, is now just equally viable: “come for the network, pay for the tool.” Just as built-in social networks are a moat for information products, customized tooling is a moat for social... See more