We know from the Silicon Valley playbook that new technology must be 10x better than the incumbent to succeed. The playbook doesn’t tell you the flipside: every significant new technology, at time of invention, is 10x worse in some dimension. Zoom is 10x worse than in person meetings because of the 100 millisecond lag that disrupts non-verbal communication.
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We know from the Silicon Valley playbook that new technology must be 10x better than the incumbent to succeed. The playbook doesn’t tell you the flipside: every significant new technology, at time of invention, is 10x worse in some dimension. Zoom is 10x worse than in person meetings because of the 100 millisecond lag that disrupts non-verbal communication.