February 2012
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“Once you begin using Dropbox, you become more and more indifferent to the...”
– Bill Gurley, Why Dropbox is Major Disruption
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The Mullet Theory of Social Software Design
For several years, I’ve been using the phrase mullet theory of software design to talk about a very special kind of software: the kind where it’s all business up front, but the real party is in the back. Tumblr has always been the perfect example of this: to any random person on the web, a tumblelog looks more or less like any other blog that’s short form or otherwise (though...
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“A particular problem is that he [Mitt Romney] betrays little indignation at any...”
– Peggy Noonan on Mitt Romney, WSJ
There’s probably a phrasing of this that is equally damning of a certain kind of entrepreneur—the one that is pursuing a project not out of passion but out of a kind of megalomania to be the top dog in their own pony show.
