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LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 2:58 Benedict Evans So that's sort of trying to turn into Medium. 4 times in the scene
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 4:37 Benedict Evans Whereas if you're posting on, we're posting on Tumblr, or now you post on Twitter or Facebook or Medium, this is what Medium tried to do, and we tried again, tried to have a network.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 4:32 Benedict Evans And so medium was like a precursor to this. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Benedict Evans And Medium was also like an interesting midpoint because it was your Medium page, but it was a Medium page, not a page. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 Benedict Evans But that's also what Medium did. 3 times in the scene
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 26:23 Benedict Evans That was also what Medium was trying to do.