Mass SaaS seems to work best when consumers can: plan their frequent consumption ahead of time and enjoy a bundled set of tiered offerings, all at fixed prices.
It’s not always a great experience, especially when you need to buy too much to get free shipping or when only absurd bulk quantities are available. I’ve abandoned multiple shopping carts this week due to one source of friction or another.
We all know “startups are hard,” but I think we tend to imagine that this difficulty is bounded, contained, modelable, a bit like running a marathon: yes, legs and lungs hurt, but that’s normal and appropriate, and we know the route, the distance, and that there’s a finish line. This is a kind of difficulty we can contend with without losing... See more
startups are hard in the way life is hard, not in the way a marathon is hard, via Mills Baker
Jack White with a most nuanced take on inspiration and work (and life):
"Inspiration and work ethic, they ride right next to each other" https://t.co/0VtIn72NC9
We are nowhere near our maximum throughput for passing on our knowledge to our fellow man, let alone across the membrane between companies and economies.