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In the early days, your network is a tropical fish: it needs the perfect water temperature to survive. The right users, the right matching density, the right tolerance for jankiness. Any of these dimensions off, the fish dies.
The mistake is to think the network's first form should resemble its eventual form. It almost never does.
Cofounder disputes are not won, they're metabolized. The mistake is treating them like debates. They're more like weather — you plan for them.
You're not paying for capability anymore, you're paying for context length. It rewards the customers who can keep their interactions short and punishes the ones running long, stateful agentic workflows.
Reading book summaries is consuming food in smoothie form. The important stuff needs slow, original-form digestion. We trick ourselves into thinking the act of capturing a summary is the act of learning. It is closer to confusing 'storage' with 'metabolism'.