MatijaApr 30, 2017

RT @johnhenry: The best decentralization news this month:

- Truly superb podcast from Tristan Harris of TimeWellSpent.io, talking about the addictive nature of modern webapps and what we can do to fix it. Really lays out the negative aspects of the system in a convincing way. Only issue is that their solution seems to be "convince Google/Facebook/etc to care about the problem", which seems...hopeful, to say the least.

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-doing-to-us

Show threadCelestine Chua✅
@moormaan @johnhenry @ken I listened to that podcast when it got released, and it really rang true to the reasons I deleted my Facebook page: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/delete-facebook/. Tristan's intent is noble and I do agree with him, but it does seem like a tall order as John mentioned. As a publisher, I do feel like it's a race to the bottom in terms of quality of content shared, and I can speak for this in my industry (self-help).
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:00pmWeb
Show threadCelestine Chua✅Apr 30, 2017
@ken @johnhenry @moormaan Unfortunately if virtual city developers (FB, etc.) are building the web in such an attention-depraved way, that tends to elicit/promote outrage (in the name of reaction, engagement), I do feel that the web is skewed against well-intentioned content creators who want to create quality content that may not spread as quickly, as they take time to think/read/digest — totally counter to the engagement metric of quick clicks/comments/shares.
Show threadKenApr 30, 2017
@celes @moormaan @johnhenry adding on that medium article by Tristan Harris which first exposes the nature of dark designs to me - https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3