Sublime

As I came to realize, our business was really “changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.”

These programs are workers, and the programmers who create them are their managers.

“small pieces loosely joined.”)

We were all enthusiasts. Some of us were also entrepreneurs.

But it is only when a business becomes profitably self-sustaining, rather than subsidized by investors, that we can be sure that it is here to stay.

You must always be alert, though, for an inflection point where the old gives way to something profoundly new.

Truly disruptive new services don’t just digitize the familiar. They do away with it.

Remember, putting the right pieces of the puzzle on the table is the first step toward assembling them into a coherent picture.