All Ecosystems Tend To “Total Suck” Over Time
An inevitable consequence of feeding frenzies in the modern world.
The modern world is often trumpeted to be all about innovation, about finding solutions to real and meaningful problems — yet it’s becoming more and more commonplace that those novel solutions tend to accelerate toward a self-defeating feeding frenzy that make the original problem far worse.
Let’s look at how this happens, what can be done about it, and why pretty much everyone involved in the feeding frenzy will do everything to prevent this happening.
Playbook
Imagine a problem, something that’s either currently impossible to do or extremely difficult and frustrating to accomplish.
Perhaps it’s finding a contract job pre-2000 and having to trawl through half a dozen job search sites, agencies and suchlike, and then having to make phone call after phone call tracking down recruiters and bending them to your will.
Perhaps it’s getting your website noticed on the internet, getting it to come up during a search on <insert search engine here>, as it’s well known that no-one looks on anything but the first page of results.
Perhaps it’s just as simple as switching your energy supplier to get a better deal without paging through awkward and badly…
