I was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like,  I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the p

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Where will we see luxury software transform markets? Already, in the consumer productivity space, we’re starting to see “luxury” email clients, calendars, browsers, and search engines emerge. While all of these capabilities are freely accessible to consumers and rather commoditized, companies like Superhuman for email, Cron (now Notion) for calenda... See more

And so if you were signaling online, and then you’re getting all this applause, and people are treating you with high status online… And then you get offline and people can’t see any of these signals — because you’re just a kid in school and they don’t see your cool videos, or whatever it is. And you’re treated a lot worse — and not necessarily bec

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A lot of networks that have achieved super scale had some sort of status incentives or status games built in, very early on. It helped them to get that kinetic energy that you need in order to achieve scale that then increases your utility. Those networks were paying you to develop the network — paying with ego, with status, with a sort of an emoti... See more