Sparking a viral phenomenon is not the same thing as triggering a network effect is not the same thing as growing a network. But they’re kinda rhyming things at 3 different architectural levels: information, people, protocol. Each level is 10x harder than the one above it.
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I’ll award myself the following grades
B+ for virality engineering
C- for network effect engineering
D- for network growth
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there's only so much traction for intelligent word salad (how one of my friends pejoratively describes ribbonfarm)
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A++ for triggering twitters’ algorithm to always have your catnip thoughts in my timeline and make me respond like a fanboy 4x a day
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