Currency (or IOU's, handshakes, pieces of green paper, bits on a disc, etc) is just an abstraction allows one to have choice.

The political systems that get built on top of that are just a downstream effect of the incentives that arise. Communisim thinking it would be good to centralize the control, capitalism thinking it would be good allow the incentives to rule, marxism thinking the labor rules, etc.

What I do for work is SO far away from any sort of tangible production, it makes sense to have a way to just straight from Work -> Food, rather than 50-100 trades so I can eat everyday. Again, the choice to to have to trade at all, or to trade exactly what I want, when I want, is enable by currency.

You can make the argument things shouldn't be so easy, that I shouldn't be able to choose to go to play pinball and drink a vanilla milkshake at 11am, but if that's possible, currency (in whatever form you want) has to exist.

I've been saying the same thing about my netflix movies on spotify. The both have video and are both in the app store running on the same OS!

100%. The music world has gone through the "but what will we do now?" at least 6-7 times. Music videos ("video killed the radio star"), sampling, the DAW (and time aligning), home studios, auto tune, plugins and amp simulators, napster/piracy, etc, etc.

> napster/piracy

This one rankles me because of a) the benefits piracy has (third world consumers can now discover you, for starters) and b) the absolute bad faith way in which the industry acts, screwing over artists, unethically going after Pirate Bay by making it into a trade war with Sweden (I think)

If you go to their website and click the "Personalize" toast at the top and enter a random domain (e.g., google.com, hydroflask.com, etc.) it will change all the copy on the site for you.

Thank you yes, we perhaps should have made that a little clearer in the post body :')

Thats how it used to work in the movie theater/cable days. Then Netflix said "I will pay you a ton of money up front to own everything" Creatives said amazing! Then the "war" for creative talent started because of the fragmentation of services, so you got people saying I will pay you X + a royalty regardless because you are so sought after, which eventually, as you see here, priced them out of their own content.

This is a great example of why managers have to exist.

Managers are rarely the right people to take these concerns to

They are political beasts, and unless you have some political capital with the Manager.

Long story short - if the other guy is seen by the manager as more valuable, you speaking up will get you a one way ticket to the door

Same "verticalization" argument people made for search in the early 2000s. There's a lot more use cases for tech than just vertical SaaS apps.

I don't think that comparison holds, search is a task you do as part of a workflow, there isn't a big difference in search across verticals other than curation of the data set you're searching from. If chat is becoming how people do their work, I don't see how product proliferation across verticals isn't going to be a thing.

That's only obvious in hindsight. Back in the day, people said how in the world am I going to use the same search box for buying a car (color, make, model, photos) as I do for finding the latest concerts in my area (map, seating charts, etc.)

And you're right vertical SaaS DID become a thing, and so will vertical AI, but the horizontal versions of both (search and SaaS) crush the vertical ones (Google for search Microsoft for SaaS), and I believe it will be the same. Theres a layer above what you are talking about (e.g. Teams as the product vs Slack as the company).

Horizontal has a higher TAM and Vertical is easier to execute.

But this is besides the point. My point was that productivity is a minority of the TAM.

The games he is talking about deliberately didn't have docs or help because that WAS the game, to guess.

I think same here, while there are docs "please show me the correct way to do X," the surface area is so large the the analogy holds up still, in that you might as well just be guessing fo rhte right command.

People talked for a long time about filter bubbles. I think we are realizing that it was actually GOOD to be in a filter bubble (neighborhood, school, a few close friends, etc.)

It is not that people have wildly different views all of a sudden, it is that being exposed to views we used to be protected against is really unpleasant.

"The world isn't so bad" -> "The world is very bad"

If you imagined the sound of tom - tom - ride on drums, its a nice punchline to your joke :)