1/ Some thoughts on Google Search
I was listening to ILtB's episode with Sridhar who played instrumental role in Google's Search success, and is now building Neeva, a subscription based private search product.
As a $GOOG shareholder, I was curious and here's my notes.
Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from... See more
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However, as time has progressed, the practicality for a consumer to use a product subscription started to wain and horror stories of consumers not being able to cancel or being billed continuously started to emerge. Very quickly, subscription models gained consumer reputation of being “locked-in” and not having any sort of the flexibility modern... See more
Psychotherapy research shows that when individuals feel listened to, they tend to listen to themselves more carefully and to openly evaluate and clarify their own thoughts and feelings.
Think of the vocal minority of Instagram users would like to view their feed chronologically, for example. Or the Facebook users who want to pay to turn off ads. Or look at all the impossible questions related to speech that are decided at a platform level, when they would better resolved at a personal one.