
Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change

If your outcome behavior is not the result of any of the motivations of the population or the benefit of that behavior or intervention does not outweigh the cost to an alternative motivation, it is unethical.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Inhibiting pressures tend to apply universally, which makes addressing them disproportionately efficient.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
It is also important to be careful not to include limitations that you intend to modify through behavior change.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Interpreting an effect size is pretty straightforward in that the higher the number, the more effective the intervention,
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Research papers are good for external insights, but so is simply cross-pollinating with other industries and disciplines.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
She was teaching us that the goal isn’t just having the most ideas; it is having different ideas. Better ones. Twenty-five little lightbulbs went on and we were set out into the world to become creative, status-quo-changing thinkers. That definition
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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The first maps motivation to the conditions that make behavior more likely, called promoting pressures.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
One of the signs of stability is a deep engagement, often with references to a personal connection to the behavior.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
a clearly described behavior that is the explicit goal of creation—our