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The university is an invention – there’s nothing fundamentally inevitable about it. The university is also an object of culture – universities play different roles in society and economy and life in different parts of the world, and at different points in history. The university is arbitrary in this way, but it’s also fundamental to the way the wor... See more

There were two major pieces of native functionality that have been left out up until recently - payments and state.

Another idea is that the internet is changing our preferences — we’re getting more interested in either exactly what we want, or whatever’s most frictionless. Aggregate or specialize. In other words, give people everything they want or the one thing they need. Everything in the middle gets slaughtered.

Contrast this with the traditional world, where you don’t see Facebook airdropping its shares or Twitter sharing its revenue with its users

I decided to write about McMaster-Carr because it is so rare to see such careful thought go into an industrial web app, far removed from the commotion of silicon valley, web3, D2C, and the other typical subjects of pixel perfection.

When someone new joins the company, they do what everyone else does: go into our Notion queue, pick a task, and get to work, asking for clarification when needed.