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The underlying appeal in software as a business is scale . With zero marginal costs, you can build your product just once and put it in the hands of billons. The goal is scale, and the strategy is growth.
But this strategy of endless growth cuts against one of the fundamental... See more
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“Unpacking My Library,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste. [2]
Taste is
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His name is Tristan Harris, a former start-up founder and Google engineer who deviated from his well-worn path through the world of tech to become something decidedly rarer in this closed world: a whistleblower.
“This thing is a slot machine,” Harris says early in the interview while holding up his smartphone.
“How is that a slot machine?” Cooper
... See moreCal Newport; • Digital Minimalism
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John Luttig • Rippling and the return of ambition - by John Luttig
The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.