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Another unique thing about virality is that it comes and goes over time depending on the channels available. These viral channels are constantly in flux. Not true with network effects, which are more stable over time.
James Currier • Viral Effects Are Not Network Effects
So to the question of right relationship, I think my heart's yearning is to bless that is to acknowledge that yearning, that desire for a different relationship that is not supported by our modern suburban arrangements but also to caution that sometimes in our quest to go back, we actually re-entrench, or reinforce and reinscribe the modern. It’s... See more
For the Wild • Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD
James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
It’s not just about the experience of control, though. The minuscule provokes both awe for its mechanisms — the technical means by which it was brought into existence; the details of its structure — and the distortion of time. In On Longing, Susan Stewart argues that the miniature is a space unattached to “lived historical time”: diminution... See more
Leah Mandel • Colony Collapse - Real Life
So what do most entrepreneurs do? They imitate the externals. They perpetuate the rituals.
Luke Burgis • Cargo Cult Startups
Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces are going to be a big part of the ongoing marketplace revolution. They make it manageable for small vendors to sell into S&P 500 customers that are normally out of reach and make it easier for enterprises to work with outside vendors to get the latest business products and services without having to bring them... See more
NFX • Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces Will Turn Large Organizations Inside-Out
Governments and other traditional forms of hierarchical power are ill-equipped to understand the network economy and evolve the new social contract...they live in a hierarchical world of scale, and we live in the networked world. Different technologies lead to different mental models, different languages, different tools for making positive... See more
James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
You can unbundle the education and the network, but the hardest part about universities to unbundle is the prestige
You know who also has prestige? Tesla. Apple. Google.
A startup should create a "university in a box" and sell it to companies w/ prestige looking to train & hire
Erik Torenbergtwitter.comWe often think making things for the web is a process of simplifying—the hub, the dashboard, the control panel are all dreams of technology that coalesces, but things have a tendency to diverge into a multiplicity of options. We pile on more tools and technology, each one increasingly nuanced and minor in its critical differences. Clearly,... See more