The paper is here https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/111114 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/111114 and is very accessible reading. My takeaway is these

The paper is here https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/111114 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/111114 and is very accessible reading. My takeaway is these ‘Harbingers of Failure’ have tastes not shared by the broader market, and so success only among the harbingers is unlikely to spread. They also allude to an idea that overtuning tech products to early adopters is dangerous because they are possibly weird and unrepresentative of a bigger potential market.