Bad ideas that may seem like good ideas: apps for mental health.
Tapping on a screen, talking to a therapist bot, or pretending you’re meditating while blaring blue light into your eyeballs will not make you feel better.
To take the most famous example, the root of Facebook's churn issues began when their graph burgeoned to encompass everyone in one's life. As noted above, just because we are friends with someone doesn't mean we want to see everything they post about in our News Feed. In the other direction, having many more people from all spheres of our lives fol... See more
Clubhouse was the first, it’s not the last and I’m not sure it will be the ultimate winner. Clubhouse proved that social audio works on at least a small scale, but there’s a lot more to be proven. Comparing Roadtrip and Clubhouse isn’t even that fair. Clubhouse didn’t build in an anchor. Roadtrip did.
That we straddle a pivotal moment in history being old enough to remember a time before the internet but also native enough to online culture to recognise and appreciate the whole new world of human interaction that the internet is only just beginning to open up. Many of us spent much of our late adolescence and early adulthood socialising online a... See more