Interesting! Feels very Heroku like

• Need to read more about Allen, but from this piece I feel like he's my product idol.
• "Sex is a driving force for human nature"
• "Product management is art, not commerce" - agree.
• "I’ve been able to imbue my perspective of the world"
• "Grand design" vs design thinking. Grand design - "the new product emerges fully-formed in the mind’s eye before it is commercialized".
• "A good product requires a certain degree of ‘dictatorship"
• "The primary goal for technology should be helping humankind increase efficiency."
• "There is a limit to how much a single app or tool can hold. To avoid an over-bloated app, he recently announced that WeChat is expanding to revolve around different standalone apps." <- very interesting considering WeChat is the canonical super app.
• "Quality, not openness, is the greatest good that a platform can deliver" <- hard disagree with his point here. I dislike the "quality" as determined by an algorithm approach - would prefer to see everything and do curation myself.

• This is a great collection

• "It’s astoundingly cheap. Typical costs are only about $1 per month."
• "Exciting features coming including replication to read-only replicas. This will give you the ability to run local copies of your database at the edge to deliver requests instantly."

• State management abstracted out as an API

• "Humans have never really lived on earth."
• "Accessibility no longer requires proximity. You no longer have to physically relocate in order to acquire the tools and resources you need to live a comfortable life."
• "We are moving towards a reality where work and location no longer need to depend on the other. With the rapidly growing infrastructures of telecommunications, green energy, delivery services, and travel flexibility – both in pace of advancement and market size – a new way of working and living is emerging."

• Recommended by Craig