Farcaster

I simultaneously appreciate and struggle with FC’s willingness to churn existing users in pursuit of top line growth

The rationalist in me knows that being sub-scale is the worst outcome (neither 0 nor 1 in a boolean experiment)

But the romantic in me senses that this is a community project, not a platform

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

Why is being sub scale the worst outcome?

I see. I guess I’m just curious why it can’t survive as a niche community experiment (both my halves are romantic). Why does it have to win the venture game?

When you run an experiment, you want to avoid inconclusive results

A similar silicon valley axiom is "linear growth is to be avoided" -- you either want to be sub-linear, so you change your tactics OR superlinear, and you scale. If you're stuck thinking you're fine but growing modestly, you won't be able to win on venture timelines