David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) on Nostr: There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't ...
There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand *why* it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
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