The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

I’m excited to see what the refactoring will allow the dev team to produce. Technical debt is a really good thing to clean up but there might be some growing pains in the mid term.

It reminds me of when the Hummer first came out, and all you saw was rich people like Arnold driving them around.

The SUV is really just a mini van. Mini vans got a bad rep, which I think is a shame because I LOVED my Honda Odyssey. It drives like a car, and has a 3rd row that you can actually sit adults in. Also, with all the seats down, and middle seats removed, you could carry a LOT. We fit two full sofas from Ikea back there. It was a tight fit, but it worked great.

For whatever reason people don’t like the idea of mini vans, so they made the suv because TRUCK. We replaced the Odyssey with a Subaru Ascent, and that is great too, it has all wheel driving, and a lot more bells and whistles than the old Odyssey. The 3rd row is not nice to sit in as an adult though, and I miss the sliding doors, those were great in tight spaces.

They just need to put more sliding doors on these vehicles they expect people to get in and out of the back seats.

So we can do this all again in 2124 then.