Products win when value exceeds cognitive load
Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast)
“It is not always the easiest-to-use products [that] win. It is usually the products that have cognitive coefficiency of over one… if the value perceived over cognitive load required is greater than one, the product will be successful.” — 00:37:37
Context: His Vim analogy for why Akash’s crypto/container friction doesn’t block adoption when GPUs are otherwise unobtainable; pairs with “with closed source you can move really fast, but with open standards and open protocols you can go much further” ([00:33:55]).