{"id":14228,"date":"2016-04-20T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2016-04-20T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T23:25:06","slug":"our-software-must-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/our-software-must-get-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Software Must Get Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2016\/04\/our-software-must-get-better.html\">Seth Godin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2016\/04\/our-software-must-get-better.html\">\n<p>Imagine what would happen if this were true for buildings&#8230; if the efficiency and style and ambience of every building in the world could be fixed, all at once, in exchange for one investment.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, software tends to be mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the biggest problem: In many markets, especially online, software is free. And free software built by corporations turns us from the user into the product. If you&rsquo;re not paying for it, after all, you must be the bait for the person who is. Which means companies spend time figuring out how to extract value once we&rsquo;re locked in and can&rsquo;t easily switch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin: Imagine what would happen if this were true for buildings&#8230; if the efficiency and style and ambience of every building in the world could be fixed, all at once, in exchange for one investment. Alas, software tends to be mediocre. [&#8230;] Perhaps the biggest problem: In many markets, especially online, software is free. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,176,77,224,30,170],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-contacts","tag-design","tag-itunes","tag-mac","tag-paypal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}