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I am late to this, but the @eugenewei post on status as a service and earning social capital is most excellent. It's like behavioral anthropology meets product management meets competitive strategy analysis. Or something like that. Just go read it. eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19…
"We are now in late-stage performative Twitter, where nearly every tweet is hungry as hell for favorites and retweets, and everyone is a trained pundit or comedian. It's hot takes and cool proverbs all the way down"
still true, asymptotically approaching #1
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US working age population set to bottom in the next and year or two and trend gradually higher. Comparison versus other major economies is noteworthy.
Working age population changes versus the rest of the G-10 is even more stark
stand by this
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Weather as an excuse is the last refuge of a scoundrel, but I do not think there is much signal in the housing starts decline. The West was down 33%, due to one of the wettest months in history.
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Allowing content from multiple services to be consumed in a single app is a nice step in removing an annoying friction. Otherwise I think this was a demonstration that truly changing the video business is hard, no matter how much money you have or how big your installed base.
I think the point I, and many other Netflix skeptics misunderstood, and that @ballmatthew helped me grasp, was that Netflix knew it had to go massive or go home to truly change the game in video. Hastings saw that it was win or die, and behaved as such.
Apple has all the resources in the world. If they wanted they could sign every producer to long term output deals, bid up every piece of syndicated content, go absolutely freaking massive. But why? It's not existential for them like it was for Netflix.
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