sari
@sari
making Sublime — for you and for me.
sari
twitter.com
In all of these cases, the primary challenge with building a large consumer company is not “how will you make money,” but “how do you get to be a long-standing durable network and define a new set of behaviors or verbs?” Once you can do that, it’s very likely you will be able to monetize at significant scale.
Josh Elman • “How will they make money?” is the wrong question
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sdaraskin.com
Web3 aims to expand ownership re: A) economic upside &B) governance. IMO:
A is underrated—Giving upside to >1000x more stakeholders can disrupt the network effects of aggregators
B is overrated—There'll be some positives, but we'll experience the downsides of unclear leadership
Erik Torenbergtwitter.comGovernance and
wrong, wrong, wrong
it's not desire or motivation or willpower, but positive CONTEXTS that are scarce
when you're in france you speak french, when you're in cambridge you go to class, when you're at a hackathon you code. we need to scale the right kinds of contexts to inculcate
Steve Krousex.comContext context context
happiness and
If membership isn’t scarce, the membership loses its signal message. The same applies to physical products: Apple will never offer a cheap iPhone to compete with low-end Android devices – it would destroy the company’s signal message that the iPhone is a luxury product.
Julian Lehr • Signaling as a Service
Justin Tejada
justintejada.com
Just surviving is the success. So much of who I was - my daily habits, my identifying clothing - had to get thrown away in making room to become a mother.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.