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The problem is that when you make productivity personal, you put the pressure on individuals to figure out the tension between different roles in their life. You’re telling them: You figure out how you organize the work, how you execute it. The more you do, the better. Now you have this tension of: If I spend less time with my family, I could do

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The fundamental disruption of the Internet has been to turn this dynamic on its head. First, the Internet has made distribution (of digital goods) free, neutralizing the advantage that pre-Internet distributors leveraged to integrate with suppliers. Secondly, the Internet has made transaction costs zero, making it viable for a distributor to... See more

...consumers are less likely to churn when they subscribe for a product or service they need. Aspirational services (e.g., gym/fitness memberships, audiobooks, meal kits) are usually the first subscriptions to go when consumers find that they can’t live up to their aspirations for being healthier or reading more.

Second, I’m baffled by their decision to not let users share screenshots or clips. They should do the opposite and make a frictionless clip / gif sharing workflow!

We want to make it so that for $29, for our basic plan, you get most of the things that Amazon built for itself, right off the bat.