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Francesco
Tristan Harris says, in his 2017 60 Minutes Interview, “There’s always this narrative that technology’s neutral. And it’s up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true.”
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
A brilliant quote (of a quote) from Break free from the Internet (newsletter) that made me think of a response to an argument a friend made recently about how users should take more ownership over how they use social media — as if that’s how you combat the tyrants of Silicon Valley, and not the other way around.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Is it because change appears to threaten our survival?
The goal of the offering map is to clarify what the service provides to the users, detailing the value proposition into more specific clusters of features. There’s not a standard model for this tool: the offering could be described with words, images or through a simple graph.
Offering Map | Service Design Tools
I think this is how it’s called
Global mega-platforms under capitalism are structurally incapable of handling the business of civilization: of governance, of providing genuinely public infrastructure, of making knife-edge decisions about the balance of liberties and securities. It’s not what they do or what they want to do, and in many cases it’s in opposition to their actual... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
Therapy isn’t a fix-all. Therapy doesn’t work if what you’re trying to heal from is a pervasive and systemic issue
Because self-promotion sucks. It is actually very boring and not that fun to produce TikTok videos or to learn email marketing for this purpose. Hardly anyone wants to “build a platform;” we want to just have one. This is what people sign up for now when they go for the American dream — working for yourself and making money doing what you love. The... See more
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