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People have trouble with the idea that it's OK for recreational drugs to be legal while still discouraging children and others from using them. They have trouble remembering that there are other ways of changing the world than using legislation. They ignore the possibility that the chess pieces' natural movements might thwart their best intentions.

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

Russ Roberts

Engagement means manipulating people so they use your product or service more.

Intended Consequences

Hemant Taneja and Kevin Maney

This again exemplifies the pattern that software at higher levels of the Needs Stack have fewer features and less customization than software lower on the Stack. In exchange for these limitations, their focus on the higher-level Need means it’s easier for the customer to achieve that Need. If the ease of achieving the Need is more important to a customer than the ability to customize and extend, the higher-level product makes all lower levels obsolete.

Using the Needs Stack for Competitive Strategy

longform.asmartbear.com

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