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Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q the first step, which is product market fit. You make better matches, right? If you've got mobile phones, all of a sudden it's possible to do a lot of stuff that you couldn't do back in the day. But that question is different than the question of, okay, you've created all this value. How do you get to keep some of it for yourself? Which is what power is about.

A What you're essentially teeing up here is, just to make sure I understand, platforms under this definition of an intermediary of transactions encompasses a lot of business models that we would otherwise refer to more narrowly as like marketplaces or platforms like what, you know, Windows offered for application developers to build on top of in the nineties that gave it so much power could encompass aggregators of sorts because they're all In a way, an intermediary of transactions. And I think what you're saying is there's a whole lot of work that you've done and there is to do out in the world of applying the seven powers framework specifically to platform businesses because they're different than businesses that aren't platforms. Do I have that right?

AI assessment note: “just to make sure I understand... Do I have that right?”

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