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Building on a corporate network was like building on a broken foundation. The term of art to describe this hazard of the new era: platform risk.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Kevin Green - Developer
kevingreen.sucks
Andy Matuschak
MargaretC • 2 cards
In the language of Ben Thompson, Substack has two choices. It can become a full fledged aggregator, build network effects and community, personalized content and so forth, but risk the moral purity of being one of the last ad-free algorithm-free corners of the internet, or it can become a platform, provide valuable infrastructure and flexible prici... See more
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
danluu.comScott Belsky
Abie Cohen • 9 cards
The perfect software team
dylanatsmith.com
Few programmers of large computer systems could resist the temptation to leave themselves a secret entrance. Partly it was common sense: if inept users locked up the system—and then called you for help—you always had a way to get in and repair the mess. And partly it was a kind of signature: Kilroy was here.