And we wonder why people are so fucked up, people building apps just want you to be hopelessly addicted so they can make more money from ads. Itās hard to find design books on optimizing human well-being. Why does our relationship with computers have to be framed around getting users hooked on crack? There is something seriously wrong with our industry. nostr:note12er924k94g2qjpx004758q06tklrwfwp7v5lrh422nfzjdykk53sq87z4k
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It's the age of exploitation
I think this is just the byproduct of capitalism. When the incentive is to hoard as much capital as possible as competitively as allowed. We end up with this.
Nahhh. This is fiat games, plain and simple. If we had sound money, weād be focused on building things that enrich peoples lives more and not these short term games.
Why? I donāt see how Fiat has to do with this.
If anything Bitcoin will only want them to accumulate more. As itās not easy to get. Unlike fiat.
Fiat incentivizes short term thinking which means businesses need to be focused on growth at all costs. The fastest way to grow your user base is to make the product free and sell ads. This creates as little friction as possible to get users on your site.
If you are operating on a sound money standard, you can prioritize differently. Because your money isnāt losing value every day, there isnāt an urgent need to grow your user base as quickly. Obviously, some will still choose to go with ads, but it opens up more possibilities for operating your business differently and focusing on delivering something users find valuable enough to pay for more than once.
I guess the big part I disagree with is that capitalism is focused on āhoardingā capital. Itās quite the opposite in fiat world because hoarding dollars means youāre losing purchasing power, so if youāre a business, you need to deploy those dollars as fast as possible. Where most tech companies spend is by fueling more growth via engineering/sales hires, exasperating the problem, and the need for more of your attention.
So yes, sound money standard might equal more āhoardingā but that would actually be better because youād likely be focused on sustainable growth since your money isnāt melting away.
Exactly. Cash flow is the current king. Thereās no such thing as Sat Flow. Only Sat Stacking. They only care about making their debts cheaper through inflation.
Home come jews always are up to something?
The design of everyday things (Don Norman)
The laws of Simplicity (John Maeda)
Thankfully the community is starting to push back organically. A lot of us are no longer willing to use ad supported services that abuse us because of their bad incentives.
When a service uses ads for support, the person paying them is not the consumer but rather a disinterested third party. That creates very perverse incentives, but with a neutral censorship resistant digital money services can monetize without having to rely on ad revenue.
Hereās a great example:
https://blog.getalby.com/block-ads-and-pay-in-bitcoin-today/
What have we become?
Letās stop reading books that Big Media recommends and start doing our own research!!
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greed
Back in the 80s the TV šŗ was the crack, kids don't watch the box anymore... queue the Internet.....maybe in the 30s it'll be the brainchip
Itās funny that his second book was about managing distractions. Selling bullets and body armour.
Incentives
It is about incentives. People won't pay for it because the cost of addiction is mostly invisible, hard to acknowledge and people generally don't care about it.
itās the highest ROI and least regulated business.
because they just want our money and addicts are profitable is my guess.
Just build cli apps .. as granular as cd, ls and vi etc ..but in #nostr context and let them pipe into each other .. you don't need any book , you already have Unix philosophy to guide you :-)
nostril, nak, nostcat
Don't forget 69,420
Letās rebrand to
Damus: the social media rehab
Not a book, but https://dynamicland.org seems cool. Long time coming, weāll see.
Itās hard to do away with variable reward that keeps people hooked.
i think the trick to make people feel like they are addicted and yet they are getting real community, real service....so after a month or six months it doesn't feel like they are spending their whole paycheck on a penny slot machine, but instead, in a roundabout way, they are advancing, so yes be "slimey" but do it in a way where they are benefitting, you know?
Apps be shitcoins without the coin
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This is probably the best UI for well being
This is your best note yet
Apple is the only vendor really pushing wellbeing
Hooked on Nostr
money is broken. everything is because money. every heart attack is due to inflation (cheaper ingredients, seed oils to disguise higher prices)
Pretty great resource on humane design https://humanebydesign.com/
I say don't get the jab, don't eat seed oils, don't eat sugar it causes cancer. they say "oh everything causes cancer" no. only things created after 1900 cause cancer.
Go and read Cancer the Emperor of all maladies by Sid M. Donāt spread the misinformation and unscientific propaganda.
there's something wrong with the masses. Anything catered to them is derivative.
Decent projects die. Nice guys finish last in a room full of pliable, ignorant goons.
I've been thinking about this a lot. How do we improve things? Maybe instead of notifications add a reminder to calendar to check stuff at certain time?
Like once every three years.
build tools & jigs, not apps
Looks like a nice read š
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Thai is just one aspect of our industry that is fucked upā¦
https://attachments.are.na/2707173/502b4fc8a083198f97ff84f8aed9bc2e.pdf?1536958813 here is a nice pdf about designing a little printer for everyday use. Joyful read.
Toda industria entre ellas la tecnolĆ³gica se dedican a satisfacer emociones humanas, y esas emociones son llevadas siempre al lĆmite en nuestra sociedad consumista lo que termina convirtiendo en adicto a las personas. Como cualquier otra droga las aplicaciones dan satisfacciĆ³n, toda una industria provee, y los desarrolladores son el distribuidor que cubre esa necesidad.
No es lo correcto pero la sociedad lo pide y solicita a gritos, y alguien siempre estarĆ” dispuesto a abastecer.
Attention is the most fundamental currency.
In the old days, getting hooked was part of why shit was illegal.
This is what happens when attacking bullying is treated as a higher priority than attacking pedophilia in schools
This is the whole essence of capitalism.
Exploit humans to make as much money as possible.
That type of design ultimately destroys the UX which drives people to protocols like Nostr. Short term thinking.
It is a natural result of a liberal world order focused on individual will and power.
We will only resolve to do any better if we return to a society focused on human dignity, the common good, and God.
DAILY ACTIVE USERS IS AN ADDICTION MEASUREMENT
Wait ā¦ what are we measuring? āActive usersā on the protocol or per app āvendorā?
Being āhookedā on the former (decentralized protocol with no owner) is not quite as āinsidiousā as the latter. Maybe?
And while vendors MAY measure āactive usersā on their own āplatformā, the nature of the open protocol kind of makes it a moot point.
Vendors are welcome to compete for addictivenessā¦ right?
The internet, to the casual, has shrunken down so much it's more like Cable TV than ever. Just peek at the world of streaming services.
I'll stay on the seas... precisely because of that. Dont want to be part of this shit. :/
Donāt stray from the path. Keep it real
Because all forms of monetizing were built on advertising foundations, thus making an inevitability within the industry to capture users attention.
That until is until bitcoin, nostr, zaps and the paradigm shift on value 4 value came about.
Didn't Nir have another book that was all about fixing the problem be helped make?
Found it 
I'm addicted to #Bitcoin
It will never change.
Was it always like this? Or was it the emergence of big tech/web2.0 that askewed the landscape dramatically? I remember books in the 90s being so full of hope for the future and where the WWW and internet would take us.
Now? Everywhere I turn is people trying to make money from these 'habit forming' tendencies we're trying to get the rest of mankind hooked on. Internet needs a huge paradigm shift!
It's fiat.