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making Sublime — for you and for me.
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making Sublime — for you and for me.
Just as eating healthy is an everyday battle, the Internet makes it hard to find nutrient-dense information. It’s absolutely possible, but it demands deliberate effort. The Internet increases variance in outcomes. More good and more bad.
This push for simplicity had a purpose. Even though he was a high-tech CEO, Steve could put himself in the shoes of customers, people who cared nothing for the ins and outs of the software industry. He never wanted Apple software to overload people, especially when they might already be stretched by the bustle of their everyday lives.
In the same way that it takes a critical mass of searchers and information to kickstart the network effects of a search engine (aka the minimum network), there’s a maximum capacity that once exceeded, it can reduce the value of the network over time as more people and information are added to it.