i think a lot about whether ev williams's original vision for obvious (before everyone there decided to focus solely on twitter) could pan out if it were tried again or if "create something so lucrative nobody wants to do anything else" was an inevitable conclusion [web.archive.org/web/20061125...](

evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp.

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if one man can kill it it was dead to begin with

"TWO FATES KNOT INTO ONE INSEPARABLY- IT ALL BEGAN AT THAT MOMENT" https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:wzjoqxvghocxiu6sn4xwtyfh&cid=bafkreicbqljjrewhbma3ooha3m7wf4pcjcqpzghnxeoxjygken5gnibh5q