topic: business models

Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.

I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:

(The even-earlier versions of the site existed… but are not relevant here.)

2021
- Feb
  - 07
    - Scarcities—JOURNAL
      
      In which what was supposed to be a quick, Robin Sloan- and Craig Mod-inspired, note on attention and cryptothings… somehow morphed into the dream of a research program for something much, much different.
2025
- Jun
  - 22
    - Some Products Just Aren’t Big Companies—JOURNAL
      
      A reflection on Mozilla shutting down Pocket.
  - 23
    - Platform Reality↩︎—❈—NOTES
      
      Riffing on Robin Sloan on Substack and the open web.
- Jul
  - 05
    - Subscriptions That Respect Users—NOTES
      
      A decade on, no one has done better than JetBrains on this.
  - 22
    - Kobo and Instapaper Integration—NOTES
      
      Exactly what I have been hoping for since Mozilla announced the Pocket shutdown.
    - CleanShotX: Another Example of a Good ‘Subscription’ Model—NOTES
      
      I will celebrate every piece of software I use that gets this right.
- Aug
  - 02
    - Who Wants an Oxide Rack?—NOTES
      
      This guy! And at least one other guy!
- Sep
  - 05
    - Software, change, stability, imperfect markets…—NOTES
      
      Some reflections on 1Password.

That’s it for this topic… but there are many, many more!