Getting over the shoulder of the S curve

May 28, 2018 10:12 PM

Invisible Asymptotes is an essay from Eugene Wei about finding and overcoming the limits to a system's growth, using Amazon and popular social networks as examples.
posted by a snickering nuthatch (2 comments total)

This was interesting, thanks for posting this. One thought I had was that Amazon builds excellent, innovative, and deep back end infrastructure, rather than just services. The back end is flexible and scalable and can be re-purposed and re-applied to as-yet-unknown needs. It would have been interesting to compare Amazon with Google, rather than just single function social media apps.
posted by carter at 4:29 AM on May 29, 2018

Maybe we should be encouraging text-based social media to teach reading. It would do good and probably increase their audiences.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 7:50 AM on May 29, 2018 [1 favorite]