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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Oct 2018
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    Poll: When you design a product, service, or org, you should design for median users who are:

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      2. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 19 Oct 2018
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        depends on project constraints

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Oct 2018
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        😡https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1051260322344886274?s=20 …

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        Venkatesh Rao @vgr
        Don’t answer questions beginning with “it depends”. It’s tedious and annoying. Everybody know “it” always “depends”. If you have something useful to say, frame it as an if/then qualified answer. Like, “I can speak to 2 cases. If we’re talking X then...and if we’re talking Y...”
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      2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 19 Oct 2018
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        what kinda trap you setting here? 😂 you know better than I do that this varies sooooo much depending on scale, scope, starting niche... the bigger the userbase gets the more you have to anticipate evil+smart users. 100–10,000 users: smart+good 100,000: dumb+good, dumb+evil 1m+

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Oct 2018
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        😇

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      1. will minshew‏ @wminshew 19 Oct 2018
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        eh.. feels like a fake decision. Would design for D&G AND S&E. If just the former you have glaring security holes. If just the latter you limit usability.

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      2. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 19 Oct 2018
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        Dumb and good. Good because most people are good. Dumb because people are often distracted. "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." -- Whitehead

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      3. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 20 Oct 2018
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        Degrees of dumb/smart in the design params indicate how much you expect users to discover / change / subvert the rules. Degrees of good/evil indicate how much you feel you have to police them. I’ve designed software for all four quadrants.

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      1. ok look,‏ @suchaone 19 Oct 2018
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        obviously depends on the product, but there is generally better payoff on the ones designed for a dumb and good majority

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      1. NOLAN GRAY‏ @nolangray_ 19 Oct 2018
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        I'm outlier-ing this one, if you design for smart and good then the median will be...the median and you'll settle on the bell end

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