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Here’s what I’ve been able to piece together about the marginal user. Let’s call him Marl. The first thing you need to know about Marl is that he has the attention span of a goldfish on acid. Once Marl opens your app, you have about 1.3 seconds to catch his attention with a shiny image or triggering headlin... See more
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
“How many things which are good when small get better by becoming bigger? That local restaurant you love can’t scale to millions of users. Do you really want your favourite indie band to aspire to stadium-level fame? People get cheaper books, and an independent bookseller closes its doors to make way for a giant warehouse full of underpaid people w
... See moreon-demand apps launched for specific professionals like programmers, lawyers, interior designers, and even doctors.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
Dominic Monn • Products I'd Pay For, 2020 Edition – Dominic Monn
The cheap-reader category was pure white space before someone noticed a job not getting done: People were going without extra pairs of glasses because they didn’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on prescription pairs.
Neumeier Marty • ZAG: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands
“Because contingent work can be unstable, or may afford fewer worker protections depending on a worker’s particular employment arrangement, it tends to lead to lower earnings, fewer benefits, and a greater reliance on public assistance than standard work.”8
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
Hurley’s normal guy vibes didn’t always play well at Google, where some degree of world-conquering narcissism was required.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
