Doing things that don't scale
https://gyazo.com/a9a4cb5106d0f9c023a5d4c209f2c412
https://twitter.com/jun_saq/status/1400817244876120066?s=21
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https://www.instagram.com/jun_saq/p/B_4udTcDC9n/?img_index=4
「 scale しないことをやる」って言葉だけだと文脈がいまいちわかりづらいよなと思ってた。これは4ページの漫画で説明されていてわかりやすいと思うnishio.icon
Let's do what doesn't scale" is not "don't do what does scale."
If you can scale, of course you should do it.
The story is that the decision to "not do it because it doesn't scale" is a fallacy.
Thinking, "Let's just do what scales," leads to thin relationships.
Trade-off between depth and breadth of cooperation : The wider the breadth, the thinner the trade-off.
It is more beneficial to build "deeper relationships" that do not scale first
meeting the user.
When I saw Takahiro Yasuno meeting and listening to voters in the Tokyo Gubernatorial Election 2024, I thought "Oh, this is "doing things that don't scale", "going to meet users"".
Also Meeting with Scott Wu 2025-03-08
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