In the inaugural* episode of Closing the Loop. Kevin interrogates Eugene about why he felt TikTok was important enough to inflict three (THREE) essays on us about it Closing the Loop is a video series by Eugene Wei and Kevin Kwok. It's a testament to the lengths people will go to avoid finishing writing their blog posts *doesn't inaugural make this sound very legitimate and like there will be many more Follow us on Twitter. Though I'm honestly very confused how you found this if *not* from already following us on twitter. https://twitter.com/eugenewei/ https://twitter.com/kevinakwok/ Follow Closing the Loop: This is it. You're already here. Just take a look a look around. We've been too lazy to make accounts on anything else. So this is all you got. Referenced in the video: Eugene's posts on TikTok https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algorithm https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat Posts from before Eugene's blog was a TikTok fan page. Simp. https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes Newsletter of funny TikTok's. Yo dawg I heard you l liked TikToks so I put some TikToks in your email so you can TikTok while you respond-to-professional-inquiries https://list-manage.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9cd4750b22daeff3875dca348&id=206e50c293 Instagram account showing how basic we all are in taking the same photos https://www.instagram.com/insta_repeat/ TikToks referenced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsurPg9Ckw https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeVq3rk5/ https://www.tiktok.com/@420doggface208/video/6876424179084709126 Bill Gurley's blog https://abovethecrowd.com/ Simon Rothman's twitter https://twitter.com/simonrothman Paper on the internet's impact on dating https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_How_Couples_Meet_Working_Paper.pdf Show Notes: 14:14 Graph Design and the Limits of Social Graphs 24:44 Unconstraining Emergent Creativity 33:21 Decentralization, Creators, and Platforms 45:41 The Power of the Internet and China 50:12 Social Platforms 1:04:56 Algorithmic Design, Tinder, and Platform Governance 1:20:30 Last Thoughts

Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory. Figma is a … Continue reading Why Figma Wins →

The reason I've found conversation more valuable than reading recently (inspired by my chats with @kevinakwok, to name one) is that reading is a uni-directional and often brittle bundle of information flow. Conversation adapts in real-time.— Eugene Wei (@eugenewei) April 17, 2018

Part of my view is that employees actually prefer this. Expedites career cycle for them. And even if company has some cruft long term. If plays out in 2 years not 20. Employees have more at bats and have more leverage when switching jobs— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) February 18, 2019

I think that we underestimate the power law of throughput by how close you are to someone. And given non-linear decay of pairwise trust as you add people to group, and group trust being the GCD of pairwise trust. So much left unsaid in the public commons of the internet— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) October 22, 2018