Most things referred to as "Things that don't scale" by technically inclined people do, in fact, scale. Capitalism is very good on taking a discrete problem and parallelizing it over several hundred thousand people. Scary good. That may be the thing capitalism does best.https://twitter.com/Ted_Underwood/status/1014303948663123968 …
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So when pg advises to “do things that don’t scale,” is it meant as: (i) don’t be dissuaded by apparent scaling difficulty because it’s resolvable or (ii) handwriting letters will lead you to discover something important which mail merges could not? Something else?
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As intended I think it's meant more like #2 (optimize for learning rather than global applicability because without learning you don't get to worry about global applicability) but it's often heard as implying much more moat than actually exists.
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Interesting. Once you recognize capitalism's ability to parallelize, is there much left in the "doesn't scale" category?
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Haha , but whatever, half the sh@t that goes in banking is due to legal, regulators and regulatory stuff. «Scrappy startup founders» on the other have zilch/nada responcibility towards society/goverment, and so on.
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Is that what stripe does? You meant payments industy?
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Obligatory link to a company that has implemented a programmable API for solving this particular problem: https://lob.com/products/print-mail/postcards …
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