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Perhaps it is time to acknowledge it is not simply the fault of faceless machines? Consider, for example, the presence of bad and polarizing content on private messaging apps — iMessage, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp — used by billions of people around the world. None of those apps deploy content or ranking algorithms. It’s just humans talking to huma... See more

One direct consequence of this is far fewer things get built or used. Because data is the foundation for so much value over time, and because it's so much more valuable when networked with other data (network effects, big data, etc.), there's far less aggregate value when data is spread across more fragmented databases and applications.

3. Fuel collaboration.

Many services are shifting their “curating power” to end-users by letting them create their own list of content and share that collection with more people, many of whom might become potential users in the long run.

- Updating — Doctors are busy people, they understandably might not have time to keep up to date with all the new research, devices, etc.

Software tech stacks today look way more like a rainforest — with animals and plants co-existing, competing, living, dying, growing, interacting in unplanned ways — than like a planned garden.