Platform Design: Interfaces, Incentives, Emergence & Second-Order Thinking

After four months of parental leave, I came back to work and noticed something different. Many of the words, phrases, acronyms, and figures of speech I took for granted no longer held the same meanings. Specifically, the word “platform:” before my time off, I would breeze over it in any presentation or document without a second thought. Now, I find it totally devoid of any meaning. I decided to start sketching out some possible defintions, and quickly uncovered something exciting: platform design isn’t just