1/ Lately, I've been reading books from VCs, trying to fill in more areas of my Silicon Valley ecosystem mental map. Most recently I read The Hard Thing About Hard Things (@bhorowitz) and Secrets of Sand Hill Road (@skupor), since @a16z seems to win the most.
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I'm currently working on a talk called Against Web Scale, and I think you're making a classic fallacy here: you're equating "success" with "mass adoption", which is only a victory if you're using monetized adoption as your success metric. The problem is success metrics.
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#indieweb folks make a similar point, trying to say you move it by the accretion of new norms and mediums that aren't captured or capturable by platforms. I'm just not convinced that's viable. - 6 more replies
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Transaction costs are wildly under appreciated imo. Including ALL the little annoying switching costs.
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Yea. For me they dominate all the time. (Finally switched only by rotating each one near expiration date, since it amortized the cost.)
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