Twitter is full of 'CEOs', dads of six, and 25-something career coaches telling you how they've figured out life.

And it all boils down to one simple hack.

An anti-thread. 🧵👇 Heck, what we don't realise is that the one thing that really binds us together is our shared cluelessness.

No one's got it all figured out. Everyone's winging it.

The best of us are just trying to be one step better today than they were yesterday.

I was among the first to articulate the shift to platforms, 15 yrs back, and later wrote about in my books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale.

I believe #protocols will drive the next big shift in value creation & markets.

Here's why!

A mega thread, with illustrations. 🧵 Protocols will bring about a fundamental redesign in value creation and markets, not just a shift towards decentralisation or read/write/own, as many of the Web1 to Web2 to #Web3 proponents often claim.

Money is a difficult topic to think right about. Everyone gets pretty emotional about money.

A few quick mental models that have helped me think about money. Cliche: Money doesn't buy happiness.

Not quite right. Money buys freedom. Freedom leads to happiness.

Almost no one disagrees with the fact that freedom leads to happiness.

So if money isn't buying you happiness, you're using it wrong.

Vehicle thinking.

A framework on creating scale and leverage with the assets and agency of others.

A thread 👇 What is vehicle thinking?

I borrow the term vehicle from 'investment vehicles' which create a mechanism to accumulate others' assets towards investment.

The limits of applying the 'platform argument' to BigTech firms, particularly Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.

A thread. 👇 The common narrative today - and also in a lot of my work, including Platform Revolution - frames Facebook, Google, and Twitter as multi-sided platforms.

#TWEETSTORM: The #Covid19 pandemic seems to have strengthened the #platform economy further. Multiple issues here:
The obvious include: remote work, food delivery, ecommerce.
The less obvious include: value chain shifts (e.g. movies), public-private partnerships, cartels etc. Let's start with some of the obvious:
1. Remote work tools
Microsoft Teams hit an all-time high of 75M DAUs in April 2019.
Zoom video calls hit a high of 300M DAU in April.
April 2020 stats: 3x YoY growth in enterprise users and 169% growth in revenue.

1/n Tweetstorm on Tiktok:
What's really interesting is not Tiktok in itself, but more broadly how AI is likely to change our mental models on platforms. One of the best places to understand TikTok is this brilliant piece by the NewYorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…