Red-Queen

I was watching an old Steve Jobs talk the other day. I don’t want to yarn on about theory; but there’s lots you can learn from history.

Have you ever heard of the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh? Or OpenStep? Or even BeOS?

This was 25yrs ago, in 1999. And I find it interesting.

Technology changes so fast. Most apps nowadays are built for the web, or atop the native runtime (Cocoa).

Startups is about ideas. Generating new ideas. Every day. Because things change. The only metric is survival, then growth.

Apple in 1999 was growing by building state-of-the-art application builder runtimes that don’t require compilation. Nowadays you wouldn’t even dream of that - the web is standard.

Kain’s Infinex is pivoting too. It was originally a DEX that eliminated the CEX. Then it was a cross-chain wallet. Now, they are an orchestrator - fixing all the problems of using crypto across chains.

“Pivot” is a misnomer, because it misses the cause. To grow you have to effect change. To effect change you have to shape yourself to what the market needs. And retain a vision. You grow naturally from this, or die.

AI is very much the same. AI just shifts the cycle up in time. The cycles continue to accelerate. This is the Red Queen hypothesis.

Always keep growing, keep recreating yourself.