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What Is Web 2.0

The classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.

Paul Graham x.com

But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts

Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow. In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes ti... See more

Patrick Collison x.com

@shreyas IMO the best product will stem from a very strong mental model of the domain and the users. UXR can help you *get* to such a model, and validate it along the way, but it's important to view the syllogism as UXR -> model -> product, not UXR -> product.

Patrick Collison x.com

Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch

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How can a business create more value for society than it captures for itself?

Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?

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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

But today things are different. One path to reinventing government through a more entrepreneurial approach has been brought forward by Tim O’Reilly, who coined the notion of “government as a platform”[401]. The vision is inspired by the strategy of the most successful tech companies. The likes of Amazon, Facebook, and Apple do not only operate appl