When you win in a routine way at work, typically who else wins? What’s the broadest useful boundary.
Eg. If I “win” with a viral blog post, English-reading middle class wins with a bit of an insight hit.
If an Android engineer “wins” with a neat feature, 90% of the world wins.
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reminds me of that nordhaus paper about how innovators tend to capture single-digit percentages of the total benefit of their innovations because the vast majority of the value is enjoyed by the users papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
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I’ve stopped citing it too much… the general intuition about order of magnitude is sound but the specifics and his general posture on stuff like climate invite debate I usually want to avoid.
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yeah it wouldn't make sense to; anyway you can tell why he didn't publish-as-in-journal it but yeah i think the general intuition is sound

