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By contrast, consumer software tools that enhance human agency, that serve us when we are most creative and intentional, are often built by hobbyists and used by a handful of nerds. If such a tool ever gets too successful one of the Marl-serving companies, flush with cash from advertising or growth-hungry venture capital, will acquire it and kill i... See more
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
youtube.comFuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he argues, a “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what he has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the e... See more
Kyle Chayka • Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker
In "The End of Software" @cpaik gets it half right. He totally nails the arc of history (the availability of application software will explode) but it's worth asking "so what?"
Who win: new classes of companies to make order from chaos + take advantage of new markets
Who loses: founders + ... See more
Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.com
Today’s guest, Andrew Milgram, spent $600M buying NYC taxi medallions at the peak of Uber's power—an investment which gives you a sense of Andrew’s style.
He describes a “K-shaped economy,” where one small group of companies does incredibly well while the rest struggle.
Amidst it all he trie... See more
Patrick OShaughnessyx.com