Software margins going to zero (at least for tools without network effects)
Hi Casters. A decade ago I wrote a post called The Dentist Office Software Story that outlined the lack of defensibility in enterprise software. I decided that it is time to update it and so I wrote a new chapter this morning. Here it is, with the new chapter in italics. https://avc.xyz/an-updated-dentist-office-softwa
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Blog post for your weekend reading: More Lazy Employment Thinking (Jevons Paradox Edition)
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Blog post: The Imperative for Moral Progress in the Face of Technological Acceleration
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Blog post: The Magic Employment Fallacy (aka friends don't let friends invoke the Lump of Labor Fallacy)
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Fantastic history of Cloudflare with lots of nuggets for founders
I spoke w/ @cloudflare co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince for the latest ep of the Slow Hunch podcast.
Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare into one of the most important companies on the internet: powering and protecting vast portions of global traffic.
I’ve known Matthew since @usv’s investment in Cl
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Another great Edge Cases episode
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Updated version of Pascal's wager: treat emergent artificial intelligences as humans. Limited downside and potentially infinite upside if it gets future super intelligences to care about human thriving.
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