These takes are everywhere and good grief are they boring 🥱
When you see one, you can be certain of a few things:
- the most interesting, nuanced aspects of the topic won't be covered
- the author is optimizing for clicks over precision [that's fine, that's the game]
- the post tells you more about what the subject wants you to believe, or is afraid of, than the topic itself
In rank order
#1. Anything that contains the word "moat"
There is a 90% chance the poster doesn't understand the term's serious meaning and that whatever they are referencing is neither new nor a moat
See: Some Notes on Moats
#2. "_________ is dead"
Probably not, and definitely not on whatever timeline that's being proposed.
#3. "X just killed Y"
90% chance the author doesn't understand one of the variables, if not both, and the entire analysis is flawed
#4. "Steve Jobs would have never [fill in the blank]"
This person never worked for Steve Jobs, probably doesn't understand Apple's strategy then or now, boring boring boring
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