The Best of cdixon.eth
9 most popular cdixon.eth articles, as voted by our community.
Programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, crypto/web3. Author of Read Write Own (Random House, January 2024)
cdixon.eth on Apple
The Internet Economy — Medium
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far…
cdixon.eth on Crypto
Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
cdixon.eth on Economics
How bundling benefits sellers and buyers
There is a widespread belief in technology circles that bundling of cable TV, newspaper, magazine and other information goods will go away now that those products can be distributed à la carte on the…
cdixon.eth on Metaverse
What’s Next in Computing?
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing…
cdixon.eth on Steve Jobs
Strong and Weak Technologies
During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one instance in which a journalist criticized the iPhone’s touch-screen keyboard. “It doesn’t work,” the…
cdixon.eth on Technology
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology — Medium
“The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of technology.” — The Economist
cdixon.eth on Web3
Why Decentralization Matters
Centralized platforms have been dominant for so long that many people have forgotten there is a better way to build internet services.
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The idea maze – cdixon blog
The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained. This neglects the years of toil that entrepreneurs…
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