# Mostly clueless

but curious to find out
Feb 07, 2014

# Early Adopters And Inverted Social Proof

> Hirschman credits the stability of early America with the fact that discontents could simply travel west until they felt sufficiently freed from its rules and restrictions. [...]
> There’s no limit on the number of possible subreddits, stack exchange sites, or wikipedia pages that can be made, so a user can always keep traveling west until they find something that’s worth sticking around to defend.

A great analysis of why people are early adopters and how the constantly changing face of a community can affect their loyality to a product. One of those timeless reads you should probably re-read every now and then.