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Molly White

Molly White

@molly-white · 12 positions · On ppll ↗

Software engineer, researcher and writer, a longtime Wikipedia editor, creator of Web3 is Going Just Great and author of the newsletter Citation Needed, which she publishes on her own self-hosted site.

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2 of Molly White's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Lock-in and switching costs, Value moves to what stays scarce.

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Lock-in and switching costs

People stay with what they would not choose again because leaving costs more than staying; watch who sets that cost.

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A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave.

  1. Molly White Software engineer, researcher and writer The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power. Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news · 7 Oct 2024All korrents from this piece
    The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.

Value moves to what stays scarce

When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.

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The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

  1. Molly White Software engineer, researcher and writer What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage. Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news · 7 Oct 2024All korrents from this piece
    What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.