I feel like if we count Amazon as an interface company, then we’re going to have to count pretty much everything as an interface company, and the concept becomes trivial. If Amazon is an interface between factories and consumers, then factories are an interface between raw materials and Amazon, and Rio Tinto is an interface between Mother Earth and factories.
But it’s not novel, though? Like, I feel like everyone already knows it’s important to think about companies in terms of what they do, i.e. in terms of what they take as inputs and then what they produce as outputs.
I’ve experienced insight from holding a sort of strong behaviorist frame, treating the normal contents as black boxes and focusing entirely on inputs and outputs. It’s sort of like switching between oo and functionalist programming views of problems.
I feel like if we count Amazon as an interface company, then we’re going to have to count pretty much everything as an interface company, and the concept becomes trivial. If Amazon is an interface between factories and consumers, then factories are an interface between raw materials and Amazon, and Rio Tinto is an interface between Mother Earth and factories.
Yeah but I sort of endorse thinking like this.
But it’s not novel, though? Like, I feel like everyone already knows it’s important to think about companies in terms of what they do, i.e. in terms of what they take as inputs and then what they produce as outputs.
I’ve experienced insight from holding a sort of strong behaviorist frame, treating the normal contents as black boxes and focusing entirely on inputs and outputs. It’s sort of like switching between oo and functionalist programming views of problems.