👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
the practical upshot is that if it's feasible for ur problem space, to start off by targeting the low-value market segment, investing in quicker iteration & lean ops early on; you'll be more likely to arrive at an optimal equilibrium prior to locking in strategy during scaling
this is a major part of why I'm generally more philosophically aligned with the B2C SaaS startup approach, as it's much easier to scale up to target large enterprises than to scale down to target smaller consumers
having many small users drastically increases your learning rate
this huge pool of many low-value clients, while harder to scale a business with, does enable one to iterate much faster and with a higher risk tolerance, which has accumulated benefits for R&D, allowing these competitors to challenge you for the higher-value clients down the line
this overhead opens the door for smaller leaner competitors to swoop in & scoop up large swaths of the market that ur product was inaccessible to; since there are typically many more of these consumers, this gives your competitors a treasure trove of a market research opportunity
iterated over several years this can effectively lock in corporate strategy and make it downright impossible to target smaller consumers, as the entire organization is used to a certain way of working, with a certain amount of overhead and flex budget built into the process
due to architectural decisions not prioritizing cost, this sets a very high opex floor, which has downstream consequences on pricing structure, which constrains the target demo to price-insensitive buyers such as large institutions
this, in turn, influences the product backlog
this makes sense in the short term as the company seeks to find product/market fit, and to iterate quickly on features to capture as much of the market as possible
but longer term it has the effect of locking out access to an entire market segment of price-sensitive consumers
there's this interesting misalignment of incentives in a certain type of heavily financed software startup wherein engineers are not only encouraged to be cost-agnostic in the solutions they design, but are actively discouraged from spending time to save money
adulthood is admitting to yourself that there's nothing immoral about letting go the affectations of ur youth
it's ok that I prefer coffee to black tea most days now, it doesn't mean I've forgotten who I am, or a bad person; sounds ridiculous, but seems part of me felt that way
clean ur mental room, do your psychic bed; your moms def not gunna do it for u
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RT @eigenrobot
fantastic essay on the nature of attention, it's relationship to language, how we slice up the world into legible subsets, and what is lost in this process
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RT @j_asminewang
i’ve been thinking about attention https://jasminewang.substack.com/p/attending-to-the-other
https://twitter.com/j_asminewang/status/1468033278074658821
hot take only switch/switch relationships can be truly ethical
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RT @VividVoid_
Guys, just tell women what you think. About gender issues, about sex, about feminism, about what they believe and how they conduct themselves, about how society is changing, about what you need from them and what you expect from them.
https://twitter.com/VividVoid_/status/1467982453289586691
putting my epistemics on the critical path by seeking out, ingesting, and defeating successively more potent cognitohazards
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RT @algekalipso
Technically, philosophers of mind that are not trying to modify their own consciousness lack "skin in the game" (cf. economists without stocks).
That's why every philosopher of mind should put their theories to the test via a 5-MeO-DMT trip.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
https://twitter.com/algekalipso/status/1467541612225916929
the cure to the sunk cost fallacy is a stop-loss
*extremely LMFAO voice*
every day I'm suffering
yall never heard of a failfast?
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RT @CaliShirogane
Men will look at a woman for approximately 2 seconds one time and then imagine marrying them.
https://twitter.com/CaliShirogane/status/1467550449742061575
if one wishes to "liberate" themselves of their conscience, what this means is that wish to be entirely unfettered, the ultimate individualism; free to act without concern for how their behavior affects not only others, but also their higher self
your conscience is a simulated amalgam of your social connections' stated value functions, and it's purpose is to validate potential actions for impact on alignment
the real kicker is that your past and future self, the retrocausal self-hyperobject, is one of these connections
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RT @PYeerk
I would say the average person today is alienated from their conscience enough for it to feel like a bizarre, intrusive presence
https://twitter.com/PYeerk/status/1467792069867491330
being is a process, not an event
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RT @lalaAlicelala
@myceliummage always
https://twitter.com/lalaAlicelala/status/1467898866393571333
