This reflection brought to you by the respected American journal which retweeted ragebait today... for the eighth time in the last two years. Did they do it because their social team knew that article would piss people off? Or does "sort by engagement desc" generate this magic?
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I described the article as "clearly designed to be ragebait" in an early version of that tweet but in hindsight I think that might actually not be true. They could literally just have entirely conscientious journalists publishing daily and have their social team find the bait.
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Maybe every editor wakes up every morning to serve the public interest. Maybe every journalist shines their light into every assigned story. Maybe every social media planner gives people what they want to see. Moloch cares not; he will subvert them to producing pollution anyhow.
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"users" who talk the loudest and longest should never set your product direction
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How do you weed that out? About to start a round of user interviews and could do with some input :)
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So many product teams default to using engagement metrics to measure success, but there are a lot of products where engagement isn’t “success”. Think Headspace or Calm: isn’t the idea to use need those apps *less* over time, not more?
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another example of this is the daily reputation cap we (well, I) introduced at Stack Overflow. This is telling you "yep, you've used SO enough today, time to work on other stuff as good programmers do." SO is not THE GOAL. Getting shit done IS.
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When your product relies on dopamene infused attention. You are literally a digital drug dealer
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Optimize for utility; the most impactful insight for your customer in the least amount of time spent in the product. Get in, get it, get out. Your customers are busy enough without digging through layers of your product for an insight that your AI layer should be serving up.
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Thanks for flagging—this wasn't intentionally missing the option to close. We just fixed it!
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