Recently got into the topic of data ownership on a conversation with Carey Lening which helped catalyze a few ideas I’ve been kicking around for a while.
In short, data ownership requires layer fungibility.
I’ll elaborate below.
Markets are a series of bundling and unbundling, and whomever does the cleanest job, wins.
A clean unbundling makes it easier for others to build upon you, to integrate, to build businesses around you. It’s why people used S3 instead of other more elaborate mechanisms.
A clean bundling makes your whole stack look solid, integrated, like what Apple used to be.
In both cases, you get the advantage of reduced cognitive overhead.
BlueSky is launching a federation developer sandbox. What does that mean?