Innovation happens in pockets.

· Bits and Bobs 5/19/25
  • Innovation happens in pockets.
    • The pocket has an average that is distinct from the overall average.
    • This creates a differential that could turn out to be valuable.
    • Some of the variance in a pocket will turn out to be fit in other contexts, and can percolate out over weak ties to spread into the rest of the network.
    • On the modern internet almost all insights are generated in the cozy web, private Discords and WhatsApp groups, and only then do they escape into the public web.