Part of what's happened here is that people - in tech but also more broadly - have had their brains broken by software scale. Millions - tens of millions - hundreds of millions - of people use software products. Their makers don't see anything smaller as having any utility. (1/n)

I knew you were a smart guy back when you lived around me but it's cool that you're correct as well.

But that "use" is incredibly thin. Much-to-most of software product use falls into the "compulsory for work" or "downloaded once, never used again" buckets. The depth and value of those interactions is infinitesimal (or negative) even if the scale is massive. With art, the ratio is reversed. (2/n)

Yes to all of this