Platform Strategy and Its Discontents

This post is an edited and expanded version of a now-mangled Mastodon thread . Contents Platforms Are Competitions ...and We're Losing Win Condition You Do It To Yourself, And That's What Really Hurts Groundhog Day Reboot Some in the JavaScript community imagine that I harbour an irrational dislike of their tools when, in fact, I want nothing more than to stop thinking about them.…