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- Maintenance fees / add-on services — some companies treat maintenance or add-on services as upsell revenue streams, but you can design a model where the product itself is free, or near-free, and you make your money from maintenance, support, or services. A classic example is open source companies.
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Giff Constable • Designing Revenue Models | giffconstable.com
We use a blanket word for these values: meaning. In a good space, we explore what's meaningful to us—not what's efficacious. Spaces are where you can live expressively, and treat yourself as a source of surprise
Joe Edelman • On Planting Fields
reading, watching & listening to and
Absolutely excellent piece.
Throughout history, new technologies have opened new fields of expression and expanded what's possible. Every time a new technology came in, at least half were left behind loving the old craft or worrying about the future. Those who embrace the discomfort, understand how the tool can be wielded will continue to create novel ideas and change culture, With the printing press, those who mastered textual literacy created profound societal impact. In those early days, this literacy was an essential differentiator.
Just as the printing press democratized knowledge creation, AI is commoditizing access to intelligence and with it redefining technical execution. This is now widely accepted. AI can generate endless ‘perfect’ outputs, and its reasoning capabilities will only expand. Design’s tools will change but design’s essence remains distinctly human: creation guided by feeling & relationships rather than pure logic, and the judgment to know what’s worth creating.
Design literacy—combining curiosity, studied curation, personal conviction, and craft—will become as vital as verbal literacy.
This way of seeing and thinking becomes a new differentiator. It’s a new type of intelligence and design that will separate those who thrive from those who fade into the noise. I see this type of design everywhere in my work with founders, engineers, salespeople, and investors—they are all designers in their own right. It is innate—it just needs to be unlocked.
The best founders already understand this. In a world where anyone can build, they know what to build, who it’s for, and why it must exist.
The most convincing form of disagreement is refutation. It's also the rarest, because it's the most work. While refutation generally entails quoting, quoting doesn't necessarily imply refutation.
paulgraham.com • How to Disagree
Google owns all the starting points. Just flipped open the laptop? Open Chrome. Need to find something? Google Search. Time to check your email? Gmail. Using a non-Apple smartphone? Android. Need to go somewhere? Google Maps / Waze. Looking for a video? Youtube. Need to work on something? Google Docs/Drive. And the list goes on.
chrisrempel.com • Part 1: the internet is having a kodak moment – Chris Rempel's Blog
We always want to copy end states, but we never want to copy the journeyYou can’t behave like Steve Jobs without having gone through his journey
Kunal Shah • Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141]
I also never learned that there are smart people who aren’t “smart.” The existence of multiple forms of intelligence has become a commonplace, but however much elite universities like to sprinkle their incoming classes with a few actors or violinists, they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic.
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
Recycling can be worse for the environment too. By the time someone has picked up that plastic container of peanut butter, driven it to a recycling facility, separated it into its plastic type, taken off the lid, fully washed it out in hot water, and melted it down in a specialised facility, we might have used less energy and produced less... See more