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I call it "Wake building" basically building a business in the wake of a new giant. Amazon was building AWS for itself and for businesses like it. It was inventing cloud services, and it was always going to be complex and expensive. The rest of the industry didn't seem particular bothered to go run behind them, so we did. It was a fine enough strategy I think, the only people I really ever felt I needed to be careful of were Linode and Joyent, so I kept a sharp eye on them, but otherwise yeah, no much to do but listen to how SMB devs didn't want to consume AWS services and build them in a way they did. These days it seems like Matthew and Michelle over at cloudflare have picked that mission up and are doing an amazing job at it, so kudos to that team for sure! :)

That sounds like the generational dynasty of modern American politics. And that's my original point: as birds of a similar feather flock together and start up political parties and enterprises that might eventually become immovable behemoths or peripherals or complements to the giants, other groups don't get to use these now already consumed resources which were used to establish empires, dynasties, and corporations. As a result of the national entropy progressing forward unencumbered, the population that can be sustained in the area, the nation's territories, is decreased, especially as time, now a representative of entropy, progresses. The force that dwindles a land's capacity for life works at a rate where the future is accurately seen as desolate. No investor that is serious about astronomical returns should ever look at planet Earth for keeping a portfolio.

And that's why effective accelerationism was born. To economically and scientifically venture out to new places where money may keep its present value. At the effective science, we have the bravery to investigate conditions considered impossible by the mainstream. We're sailing down a river where the flow is unprecedented and the source of new investments and potentials. A battery of possibilities, even the impossible possibilities.

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