Messaging is a killer app for humans.
- Messaging is a killer app for humans.
- And yet everyone uses the lowest common denominator messaging apps.
- When WhatsApp adds a feature, it's so rare and noteworthy that it's on the front page of the NYtimes!
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- A product has to serve the lowest common denominator of its user base.2025-11-10
- No one individually thinks "number go up" is the most important.2025-11-04
- The traditional product development approach is inherently lowest-common-denominator.2025-11-04
- Excellent piece from Ben Mathes on Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus".2025-11-04
- Coordination is bad.2025-09-29
- Real names in social media context collapse all the various versions of you into a single maximally safe version of yourself.2025-06-23