Tanuj

“Science concerns itself with what is, whereas technology concerns itself with what is to be”

Bootstrapping a multiplayer experience on the web is as easy as sharing a link.

What happens when the reading experience catches up with new technologies?

We are truly free in a universe-sized playground, so we might as well aim to be happy.

Disruptions upend the competitive landscape. Atmospheres change. Successful companies choke. New companies emerge. Technologies are lost. Ecosystems collapse. Value networks are dissolved and reformed.

That’s how we came to the idea of subscription to interactive books.

To the extent that the web has been difficult to kill, it is because it is evolvable. The web started as a way for scientists to share papers, and then evolved into new niches, including e-commerce, wikis, flash games, blogs, web apps, streaming video, social media, office suites, chat apps, design tools... It keeps finding new fits, and changing... See more

When they did crossed that 100ms barrier, though, a qualitative change happened. People changed their views of a tool from something they have to cope with to something that’s fun, valuable and eventually become their second nature. Now they can’t imagine how they lived otherwise.