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The second fundamental lessons is that social networks must have strong network effects so that as more and more users come aboard, the network enters a positive flywheel of growth, a compounding value from positive network effects that leads to hockey stick growth that puts dollar signs in the eyes of investors and employees alike. "Come for the tool, stay for the network" wrote Chris Dixon, in perhaps the most memorable maxim for how this works.
Status as a Service
Eugene Wei
Brand was already framing his research in terms of his “questions that ask questions” learning metaphor.
But now, finally, what would the meaning be of the word “truth” to a modern scientist? Surely not the meaning it would have for a mystic! For the really great and essential fact about the scientific revelation—the most wonderful and most challenging fact—is that science does not and cannot pretend to be “true” in any absolute sense. It does not and cannot pretend to be final. It is a tentative organization of mere “working hypotheses” (”Oh, those scientists!” “Yes, I know, but they found the bones”) that for the present appear to take into account all the relevant facts now known.
Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell
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