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You probably already have an intuitive sense of the people in your life who have great taste in something. They’re the people you always go to for restaurant or movie or gear recommendations. Maybe it’s the person you ask to be an extra set of eyes on an email or a project brief before you send it out.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Similarly, should Shopify decide to make its Shop app an actual discovery platform, it should build its recommendation feed around influencers – not shops.
Julian Lehr • What Shopify and Amazon can learn from Mimetic Theory
moderation is, inherently, a subjective practice. Despite some people’s desire to have content moderation be more scientific and objective, that’s impossible. By definition, content moderation is always going to rely on judgment calls, and many of the judgment calls will end up in gray areas where lots of people’s opinions may differ greatly.
Mike Masnick • Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
In product design, your goal is to reduce time-to-value for users. The UX should be clear and simple.
Jackie Vullinghs • When Complexity Breeds Community
-Offer visual cues as to what kinds of behavior are invited in the space
Casey Newton • What social networks can learn from public spaces
Today, the first fan of Taylor Swift is treated the same as the most recent fan. Long-time, dedicated fans get the same level of access and treatment as everyone else. Over the next decade, that will change.
Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
KEEP: Intelligent and elegant safe storage for medication.
discoverkeep.comReducing the friction for individuals is key. But as outlined in Law #1, churn is inevitable, so it is critical to retain the most successful customers, even and especially as they grow to require enterprise level features and support. This means progressively building functionality to support the upmarket opportunity without distracting from the... See more