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Intellectually, we know details and small differences matter. We can see the slight differences between two products that look similar on the surface but one is merely functional and the other is delightful. We can hear the differences between two orchestras playing the same notes, yet one rendition makes you yawn, and the other gives you goosebump... See more
Small Differences and Consistent Compounding
I'm posting here three products that are doing very well. One is Google Earth - I often use it to learn geography. This product is great but not profitable. Scratch -- programming for children. I don’t know whether it makes money or not, but it’s also really great. Roblox, a kind of UGC sandbox game, which is very different from games that we usual
... See moreZhang Yiming • Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II
It is fiendishly difficult to get lots of people to make decisions and work together both non-hierarchically and effectively.
Saffron Huang • Turing-Complete Governance
Issue a rebate back to the customer if they do not return anything after 30 days (goal is to disincentivize ordering of multiple sizes/variations)
Melina Flabiano • 🛒 The problem with eCommerce
For example, what would an amusement park look like with social distancing? What core elements of the amusement park experience can you reconstruct in a virtual world? What hybrid experience would that then lead to in a post-Covid19 world where distancing ceases but users have been conditioned?
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Covid-19: Big shifts in the entertainment industry
Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish themselves with price and performance, as traditionally defined. In a crowded marketplace, aesthetics is often the only way to make a product stand out.
-Virginia Postrel
Google was not pre-ordained to become a trillion-dollar business. In 2002, for example, the budding search engine company was treated with some skepticism. The New York Times titled a piece from that year, “Google’s Toughest Search Is for a Business Model,” summarizing the market’s concerns. One Salomon Smith Barney analyst more directly articulat
... See moreMario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist
Does this have to be a bad thing, though? If the web as we know it changes in the face of artificial abundance? Some will say it’s just the way of the world, noting that the web itself killed what came before it, and often for the better. Printed encyclopedias are all but extinct, for example, but I prefer the breadth and accessibility of Wikipedia... See more