Topic

Network Effects

Essays about social products, community systems, and the way connected users change what measurement, growth, and product quality mean.

Why A/B Testing Breaks on Social Products

Experiment logic changes when people affect each other and treatment spillover is part of the system.

Essay · Apr 2026

Healthy communities depend on product choices, moderation systems, and network conditions working together.

Essay · Apr 2026

Audience mixing is not only a social problem. It is a structural product problem in connected systems.

Essay · Apr 2026

Weak ties determine whether products stay trapped in closed loops or expand into new networks.

Essay · Apr 2026

Products behave differently depending on whether they are organizing friends, acquaintances, or strangers.

Essay · Apr 2026

Products do not merely inherit network structure. They help produce it.

Essay · Apr 2026