Most of our software runs on someone else's turf.
- Most of our software runs on someone else's turf.
- That means it optimizes for them, not for us.
- That's one of the reasons we get the cacophonous attention economies.
- It's the software creator's incentives that are followed, and they'd like us to stay engaged and have our eyeballs open for ads to beam in.
- That also means that we only get value from our data to the extent that the silo owner chooses to invest.
- They'll almost certainly invest in it less than I'd like them to.
- The amount of value I get out of my data should come down to how much I want to invest, not how much some random other company wants to.