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This means that for aggregators, customer acquisition costs decrease over time; marginal customers are attracted to the platform by virtue of the increasing number of suppliers. This further means that aggregators enjoy winner-take-all effects: since the value of an aggregator to end users is continually increasing it is exceedingly difficult for c... See more
stratechery.com • Defining Aggregators – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
I went down a little curiosity rabbit hole today.
Thinking about product offerings for niche communities:
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The problem with Google Search isn't ads. It's a problem of automation vs curation.
What we need is a mimetic search engine¹ (not instead of Google but in addition to it).
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¹ https://julian.digital/2020/05/28/what-shopify-and-amazon-can-learn-from-mimetic-theory/... See more
Expecting users to primarily interact with software in natural language is lazy .
It puts all the burden on the user to articulate good questions. What to ask, when to ask it, how to ask it, to make sense of the response, and then to repeat that many times.
But a user may not know what they don't know.
A good user interface let's me iterativel
... See moreAustin Z. Henley • Natural language is the lazy user interface
I’m more optimistic about paid audio content that’s differentiated from typical podcast concepts — and that can be successful on a smaller scale.
Dan Frommer • Subscription podcasting is not a breakout success
You are not just who you are in the present, you are also holding the potential of who you can become. You are a being who is constantly becoming, the greatest gift you have in the present is the ability to choose who you want to be next. Sacrifices are, therefore, inevitable if you want to achieve competency in something.
A Theory of General Well-Being
Zoom is not meant for social things with 8+ people.
You'd never stand in a circle of ten people with just one talking at a time.
We need some kind of chat tool that allows natural sidebars, maybe with the other people still talking but quieter?