#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key

I believe all proprietary software to be an evolutionary dead end. Maybe it'll take fifty or a hundred years. But what happens, just like what happened fairly quickly with like Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedias and Wikipedia. Is that the thing? Which is open to all and gets everyone working together.

If it truly gets that sort of like humanity working together on the same shared resource. Uh, you get the opposite of the tragedy of the commons versus like the the field being overrun, each person operating in their own self interest, sort of kills the environment or kill the sharing. You each person operating in their own self interest makes the shared thing better and better. And in digital world, we can do that because we have economics, economics of abundancy versus economics of scarcity. That's why open source will eventually win every market it's in. Welcome to the Knowledge Project, I'm your host, Shane Parrish. This podcast and our website, fs.blog, help sharpen your mind by mastering the best of what other people have already figured out.

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