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lowest common denominator appears in 23 chunks across 20 episodes, from 2024-01-16 to 2026-03-02.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 7/15/24 (2024-07-15), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with lowest common, extremely expensive, and business model, while by chunk count it sits between GitHub and opportunity cost; its yearly rank moved from #64 in 2024 to #80 in 2026.
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Range2024-01-16 to 2026-03-02Mean1.1 per episodePeak2 on 2024-07-15
Observations
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You have to constantly test the various options, and design an API to be the lowest common denominator across all providers.
Do you want to join yourself with that one provider, deeply commit to them, so you can go fast at that layer?
Or do you want to...
...an anonymous swarm can't have your data; that would be terrifying!
So the slow, lowest common denominator aggregator wins today, by default.
Even though it's slow to find new use cases, it finds more than the swarm, because the swarm isn't viable.
But wha...
... just too small to prioritize.
The result is monoliths tend to optimize for the lowest common denominator.
My friend Ivan riffed on this idea in Tyranny of the Marginal User a few months ago.
Monoliths also mean that users have to trust a small number of ...