Reducing the amount of broken glass to crawl through creates value.

· Bits and Bobs 8/26/24

People with a high pain tolerance in that domain won't understand it: "you can still do the thing you could have done before!"

But a larger number of people can now viably use it than could before.

A famous HackerNews comment when DropBox was shown off:

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"

Reducing friction and uncertainty creates value!

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