- [Secrets](https://alexdanco.com/2015/06/07/secrets/)

[Here’s why this works: when we think about the worst way to do something, our brains all of a sudden get a lot more creative](https://alexdanco.com/2015/11/10/how-to-identify-the-most-important-thing/)
everyday businesses secrets [What’s an industry secret in the field you work in?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ijlj88/whats_an_industry_secret_in_the_field_you_work_in/?curator=briefingday.com&utm_campaign=Recomendo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter)

- [Defining Aggregators](https://stratechery.com/2017/defining-aggregators/) 2017

**distinguishing aggregators and platforms**

- [A Return to Demand-driven Capital](http://abovethecrowd.com/2000/05/15/a-return-to-demand-driven-capital/) by Bill Gurley

**owning the demand than owning (your own) supply**

[Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth](https://abovethecrowd.com/2019/02/27/money-out-of-nowhere-how-internet-marketplaces-unlock-economic-wealth/)

## [Internet Crowds and Personal Space](https://alexdanco.com/2019/11/15/internet-crowds-and-personal-space/)

[Twitter is live: live commentary, live connections, live conversations](https://stratechery.com/2017/twitter-live-and-luck/)
> Today the fundamental impact of the Internet is to make distribution itself a cheap commodity — or in the case of digital content, completely free

[The weakness of Twitter, in contrast, is its unwieldy reliance on humans, to build their own feeds, to find a new network, to broadcast to potentially no one what they think](https://stratechery.com/2016/why-twitter-must-be-saved/)
> Kahneman’s career shows that **intellectual influence is the ability to dissolve disciplinary boundaries**.