For a lot of people, it’s not the app or the network effects that keep them using old tools. Just habits.
Habits can be broken 😈
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Yeah, I read in some book that if a brain were a creature, it would be a creature of habits. It loves habits.
Those aren't habits. They are lookup tables. We do everything we can to avoid burning calories by thinking really hard. Reflexes, instincts, habits, customs, traditions, ideologies.. all lookup tables.
It makes sense, the only thing that matters is right action. We can't reason our way to a right action in every instances of every day. We'd be paralyzed, so an endless series of chaches it is. It is only when we get a complete cache miss that we spend the energy to think.
Habits are "Tastes" in economics. Everyone tastes will be able change if there have more learning about costs & benefits of goods, however, it's so hard to change someone tastes in short-run.
We’ll fix that 😉
If old habits can be changed bitcoin is also not safe anymore for a replacement. For that reason alone let's hope Xitter stays the no 1.
Habituation is the nature of our mind.
But there is a counter force, the ever expending force for deeper more effecient connection and novelty!
Once energy concerved by maintaining status quo no longer out weighs the minimal energy needed to improve security, privacy, and better connectivity.
The floodgates will open!
wonder who will be the 100st 🐒?
I see still a lot of ground to be won.
One big name.... Ahum ahum 'Rogan' could tip the scale..