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The whole history of business and the economy is a story of one technological disruption after the other. Steam, electricity, aviation, the automobile, the telephone, the computer, the microchip, the Internet, and many more in the future. These innovations tend to follow patterns, have similar growth rates, similar obstacles to growth, and so on.... See more
Interview with Gary Hoover
Quality is so rare generally that people are often surprised by it.
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those... See more
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those... See more
Karri Saarinen • Tweet
A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
when I was earlier in my career I was searching for the answers or the way to do things - the binary - and I think anyone that's been doing this for a while learns that it's all nuanced. Silicon Valley has tended so far towards optimizing for graphs and metrics and if we can reel it back in a little bit at least as just one company I think that
... See moreLenny Rachitsky • Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
So Reddit’s small scale makes it challenging for them to compete with platforms for top of funnel advertisements, but what about the lower levels of the funnel? The next phases, Consideration and Evaluation, are when the customer is searching for the information. Google and Amazon are integrated into buyer journeys at this stage, and ads on these... See more
Rohit Kaul • Reddit’s missing business model: Embedding commerce in culture
Excel may be the most influential software ever built. It is a canonical example of Steve Job’s bicycle of the mind, endowing its users with computational superpowers normally reserved for professional software engineers. Armed with those superpowers, users can create fully functional software programs in the form of a humble spreadsheet to solve... See more
Packy McCormick • Excel Never Dies
In the West different companies own different graphs. In China it's very different.
Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
In yesterday’s Daily Update I described how Jeffrey Katzenberg, the founder of Quibi, mistakenly assumed that mobile was simply the next step in the evolution from motion pictures to television, each of which created new possibilities for, in Katzenberg’s words, “the creativity of storytellers [to use] these tools in ways that their inventors had... See more