The Hive is the New Network

Many of these ideas generalize beyond the world of mobile apps, as my friend Naval Ravikant, a noted investor and entrepreneur, has observed: Humans are the networked species. Networks allow us to cooperate when we would otherwise go it alone. And networks allocate the fruits of our cooperation. Money is a network. Religion is a network. A corporat

Context collapse is what happens when too many networks are simultaneously brought together, and they collapse into one. It’s most problematic for social networks because it inhibits the behavior of content creators—the hard side—as they no longer are able to post photos that satisfy everyone in every context.

Context collapse is what happens when too many networks are simultaneously brought together, and they collapse into one.