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    1.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      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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    2.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      2/ One heuristic that keeps popping up: "[N]ew products won't succeed if they are marginal improvements [...] They need to be ten times better or ten times cheaper than the current best in class to compel companies and consumers to adopt (p.49, @kupor).

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    3.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      3/ Setting aside the implicit high growth needs of VCs and the founders who approach them which do color this statement a bit, it seems like a pretty sound product heuristic. (Fuck, up until recently, I was still using Dotster for my domains because of switching costs to my AWS!)

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    4.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      4/ Meanwhile, I'm a sophisticated computer user who thinks endlessly about the harmful interactions between social media, surveillance capitalism, and the attention economy. I care about privacy — my own and everyone else's. And...I still use fucking Gmail.

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    5.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      5/ Spoiler alert: I can't imagine strong privacy as anything other than a perceived marginal improvement, if it's even perceived as an improvement at all.

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    6.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      6/ I have so many smart and passionate friends working on solutions to the problem of privacy but even in the era of endless mass data breaches and intentional exploitation, people express the same kind of concern for it as they do for alternative Alternate Side Parking rules.

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    7.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      7/ Again, I *want* privacy advocates to win — I am one of them! But privacy-first design seems like an exercise in futility *if the goal is mass adoption.* And, if that's not the goal, then you're just selling a luxury good which is a far less useful thing to advocate for.

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    8. myk is teetering‏ @mykola 5 Aug 2019
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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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      Maybe? The #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.

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      In an arena where web-scale platforms face off against the indieweb, I think the former wins most of the time, and evolutionary out-competes. I'm looking for products that can forge transformative ecosystems at an accelerated rate, and is capable of fending off the giants.

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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 5 Aug 2019
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      (That may be foolish though.)

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