A classic joke: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful… unless it's in Google Drive."

· Bits and Bobs 8/17/26
  • A classic joke: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful… unless it's in Google Drive."
    • But this hits at something very real.
    • Google, and other hyper-silos, don't have an incentive to create much value with your data.
    • They just need to provide the bare minimum value so you don't leave.
      • Once there's a critical mass, like email, then your other data accumulates automatically, due to data gravity.
    • As long as you stick around and are there to see ads, they're happy.
    • A maximally used, minimally liked product.
    • This happens, inexorably, to every hyper-silo.
    • The other silos can't compete because they don't have the data, so the ones who do get less and less competition.
    • It leads to the heat death of value for your data.
    • Maximally boring stasis.

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