But like me and my Amazon coat, it may be harder than ever to form a lasting relationship. Maybe you bought the vacuum cleaner that you saw everywhere on TikTok, but will you ever buy from that company again? These young companies, as Lowitz described, “succeed in making sales but not customers.”
We’ve simply stopped believing in many of the stories we once told ourselves, and we don’t yet know what will replace them. As a consequence, we don’t know what to pay attention to, what is worth valuing, and where we might be headed in the future.
Large market size💰: By building opinionated software, you deliberately leave a large share of the market unexploited — it’s not a “lowest common denominator” approach. Fortunately, the overall category of productivity software represents a very large market (mainly because it’s industry-agnostic). Therefore, even a slice of the market is often suf... See more
The second myth that I want to debunk is this idea of self-reliance. That resilient people do it all themselves. They’re independent, they don't need anybody else. That could not be further from the truth. Any organization, any person, any community that is resilient is one where people are coming together, where there is outside support, where the... See more
Why should peer-review happen amongst a small group of people when it can happen in the public eye? People can give comments, other people can give comments about those comments, etc. Ideas can get published faster, iterated on quicker, and become more of a group commentary vs. 6 month waits.