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Social platforms reward content that generates engagement, regardless of quality. So outrage and controversy are significantly more popular than thoughtfulness and nuance. And I believe as AI continues to spread, platforms will only invest more time and money trying to get people hooked. That means more content designed to keep us doom-scrolling, instead of content that actually helps us.
The Great Social Media Exodus?
Justin Welsh
He seems to have gone first to Egypt; and was somewhat shocked to hear from the priestly class which ruled that land, that Greece was an infant-state, without stabilizing traditions or profound culture, not yet therefore to be taken seriously by these sphinxly pundits of the Nile. But nothing so educates us as a shock; the memory of this learned caste, theocratically ruling a static agricultural people, remained alive in Plato’s thought, and played its part in writing his Utopia.
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
One often underappreciated risk with aggressively A/B testing emails and push notifications is that it results in users opting out of the channel; and even if you kill the test, those users remain opted out forever. Do this many times, and you’ve destroyed your channel.
How Duolingo reignited user growth - by Jorge Mazal
How Duolingo reignited user growth
Jorge Mazal
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