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...e and more others choose to use it. A schelling point can emerge when there's a critical mass of entities who can agree on one point, and as it gets momentum, it pulls in others, too.
...catalyzing. If lots of other people think it's weird, then it's harder for some critical mass to interpret it as cool, to cut against the grain. It can happen when some sub-group actively doesn't care about the opinion of the people who think ...
...sense is for the small number of publishers that are well known enough to get a critical mass of subscribers and put their content behind a paywall. Cozy little bright spots locked away; a barren desert everywhere else.
Ecosystems that allow mechanistic emergence have to hit a certain critical mass. A user's use case is mechanistically met by the ecosystem if it can sift through everything that everyone has done before and find a good analogue t...
Ecosystems get to critical mass when they start building themselves. That is, the fire catches and becomes a self-sustaining flame. If the ecosystem isn't fundamentally better than ...
...l into, an inescapable pull. But to have a sustainable ads ecosystem requires a critical mass. This is a heavily centralizing force, especially with things like Apple's ATT which traded off a small increase in privacy for massive centralizatio...
...chelling point that has to stand out as obviously beyond the pale to get to the critical mass where the compounding anger can accumulate on its own. But a flood the end zone with shit strategy aims for a confusing background mess. Nothing stan...
...ss. The default stance for socialization is often "I try to cram my idea into a critical mass of other people's heads, using whatever path wedges it in there most efficiently." A very one-way process. The goal is not to figure out a way to cra...
... This asymmetry is what creates a default cohering thing. For this to happen, a critical mass of collaborators have to believe that it is viable and valuable. You can believe it because it's self-evident, you can see it with your own eyes. Or ...
...very new OS needs a whole new ecosystem of software; it's very hard to get to a critical mass of software. But what if you made an OS distributed in the browser? As far as the browser is concerned, it's just any other webpage. A pocket univers...
... to hope they will be OK with it (a bit of a leap of faith), or will see that a critical mass of others are OK with it and be OK, too.
...f they found it useful and clear enough). And then that can run away and once a critical mass of the population understands it, boom, it's a word!
...uire a whole new universe of software to be created. How could you possibly get critical mass? If only there were a system for generating a swarm of good enough building blocks, and it could be made joyful to incrementally extend those buildin...
...t so much the hill climbing of quality, it's the creation of the ecosystem to a critical mass. And now you can astroturf it!
...separate as proprietary ecosystems? The first thing that is necessary is that a critical mass of participants think of them as a thing with a (perhaps fuzzy) spec. That's possible if enough ethos aligns... but also critically if the holders of...
... and only the most-engaged remain. Sometimes the gauntlet is too intense, and a critical mass of people never make it through.
...parates every origin into its own isolated pocket universe. Origins that have a critical mass of end user engagement will tend to accumulate more data in than they emit out. This leads to a significant preferential attachment effect, where the...
...iable. This means its expected value is greater than the expected cost for some critical mass of users. Second, they grow quickly based on the speed of their network effects. Some network effects have a weak gradient, and some have an incredib...
...if it's a game of inches with sub-linear returns on each effort until you reach critical mass.
...ntrast, governance/convention must be coordinated on by multiple entities. If a critical mass doesn't coordinate, then no one sees a benefit. This means that conventions/governance are very hard to adopt, even if they are known to be useful. E...