[llamavore]

Agreed that behind every success is something which can be viewed retrospectively through a negative lens. The king of this is Uber.

Perhaps this is more a reflection of hyper-capitalism than tech itself but the is book is more about the ends and less about justifying the means. The word “hustle” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I imagine stories like gumroad and Basecamp are much better ones to idolize on a better way to create value in the world.

In some ways network effects and monopolies can be used synonymously and most would agree the later is a negative thing.