Indians optimize for control while Americans optimize for convenience
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Indians optimize for control while Americans optimize for convenience
Lastly, I realize that not every company is a technology company. Centralization is necessary for some hardline and service industries, and that won’t change because of better remote work tooling. However, the technology industry is subsuming many legacy industries (e.g. big box retail, movie theaters, financial services).
Alex Taussig • Firehose #168: 🏙 Urban flight. 🏙
The Homo technologicus it produced mirrors the Homo economicus of modern economics, valuing rationality and consistency, discouraging flexibility, fluidity and chance. Today’s personalised tech systems, once the tools of mavericks, are more likely to narrow our opportunities for creativity than expand them.
And a lot of these questions trade off competition, and the user benefits that result from that, with simplicity and ease-of-use, which are also user benefits (that network stack again).
Benedict Evans • Platforms, Bundling and Kill Zones
Bottom line: let’s consider that in our modern, cushy lives, a threat to our resources can feel like a threat to our survival. We will go to great lengths to avoid anything that puts our time, energy, or money at risk.