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Even with the best recommendation algorithm, only a fraction of your feed will be content that you truly enjoy. For example, the average ratio of hearts to views on TikTok is  roughly 5% .  People are just not that predictable. On YouTube, every time you select a video but then decide you don’t want to watch it, it’s an annoyin

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Another reason to focus on demand is that it can pull supply much more effectively than supply can pull demand. It is not the case that “the world will beat a path to your door if you build a better mouse-trap” — but if you gather everybody with a mice problem in one place, I guarantee it will soon turn into a convention for better-mouse-traps inve... See more

The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.

A dearth of optimism will slowly kill any product, team, or mission. Execution will slow to a halt, and even the most minor tasks takes weeks to do. Our optimism and resolve have immense influence in what we accomplish, both at a micro task-by-task level, and when summed up, what we can do over a lifetime.

So, what problem does Dispo solve? We all want to share photos from our lives with friends and family, and sometimes with larger groups. But the options we have to do that are surprisingly intense.

Gen Zs reject the sterile, constrained online identities encouraged by older social platforms in favor of more customized forms of online expression.

Broadly, the line between excludable and non is the line between where subscriptions vs. ads reign as business models.