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You can’t manufacture a habit (though Juul is an exception). There’s no way to force consumers to use something, no matter how thoughtful or efficient or effective it may be. Marketing draws them in, but their individual needs, preferences, and interests ultimately dictate how much they’ll value a product.

# of community ambassadors

Steve Jobs articulated this approach more gently in an interview with Terry Gross: “At Apple we hire people to tell us what to do, not the other way around

It’s not the excessive consumption of code but he excessive participation from users vying for a maintainer’s attention that has made the work untenable for maintenance today

First, the value of a token is not well aligned with the long-run value of the underlying platform. There are many types of tokens, and the value of each depends on the underlying rights that the token provides