We calculate productivity as GDP per hour worked. I wonder how much increasingly distracting technology is responsible for slowdown.
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@patrickc governments should tax popular tweets, and in dogs should tax cat videos. Flame wars should be policed as antisocial behavior.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc Paperclip Maximizer for Attention is something which is so obviously terrible we've already created it. Several times. To applauseThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc What's wrong with using people for your own benefit? I don't get it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc Referring to Slack?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc it is so reassuring knowing the business leaders of today/tomorrow are thinking in this wayThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc@felixsalmon Could not agree more. If you can achieve the same, but require less of my attention, you win.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc I believe that engagement served originally as a measurable proxy for a less tangible but sought-after qualities of a product. -
@patrickc unlucky for engagement, it's also a measure of ad display opportunities so it casually slipped into being its own objective
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@patrickc so true, we should be optimizing the time taken to get a job done, not engagement (unless one’s business is ads, in which case…).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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