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Georgios Konstantopoulos • Ethereum is a Dark Forest - Paradigm
Through our ability to acknowledge the layers of loss, we can truly discover our capacity to respond, to protect, and to restore what has been damaged.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
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Nina Goodheart • 15 cards
The company was now losing something like $2 million a day. Pan Am’s personnel analysts observed a sudden, sharp increase in medical claims, apparently as employees hurried up elective medical attention on the expectation that their benefits might soon vanish.
Thomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
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Ahmad Ayash • 2 cards
Acting with uncommon dispatch, the L.A. City Council passed an ordinance providing a million dollars in relief funds, promising complete restoration and compensation for everyone materially affected by the flood. The council also authorized the formation of a Joint Restoration Committee, consisting of both a delegation of city representatives and a
... See moreGary Krist • The Mirage Factory
The key strategy here is that the experience designer should dangle the threat of a large setback (the Ultimate Loss), but should only implement (if at all) small marginal setbacks (the Executable Loss) to emotionally train the user in taking the Ultimate Loss more seriously. The Executable Loss reinforces the avoidance. As a general rule from my o
... See moreYu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
The cell phone approach is known as aggregating losses and SEGREGATING GAINS and it plays on loss aversion, giving us just one painful loss against many pleasurable gains.