Engage or Enrage. It is likely that we have family members or friends that we differ with greatly when it comes to politics, healthcare, etc. I am no different. When the inevitable hot topic arises, do you recommend flight or fight, engage or enrage? How do you respond when this occurs?
behavioral economics
AMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST
Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it
#heywait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2BsI think nudging is unavoidable. The real question isn’t whether people are nudged, it’s who is doing it, toward what end, and with what level of consent or visibility. Humans are not purely rational actors.... AMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST
Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it
#heywait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2Bs‘Nudging’ gets attention. As with ‘knocking’, the door must be voluntarily opened and willingness for engagement shown. It pre-supposes that the nudger’s priority is on a par with or sometimes superior to that of the ‘nudgee’.... - Democracy is broken. We can’t make democracy work at scale given current tech levels. It’s not even “the best bad idea we have so far.” It’s just broken.No one is qualified to lead hundreds of millions of people at the nexus of a global economy. No one is even qualified to evaluate whether someone else might do it. So we fall back to the best marketer/influencer, which is worse than many other potential options.#Deeptakes
I love the ideas in this post and also have the intuition that some some level of randomness to prevent the gaming of the system could be an improvement.... Why you should post more: Everything is a mirror of everything.
We’re all censoring most of our awareness.
Uptrust is a currently curated community where we can actually practice thinking.
The more I post the more direct I’m being with everyone in my life. (I have an embedded belief that if I do anything anywhere then I should that anything in more everywheres…but I still curate).
Post about why you’re not posting.
Post about questions you’re asking yourself.
Post about your anxiety.
Post to express art.
This shit won’t last, this fun safe newborn ward. Use this time now to try something. Create a fake name or another account so you can try it from anonymity.
Huge opportunity to bust out of our norms.
this is validating—one of my claims is that we have to make UpTrust good for purely egocentric aims as well, as long as those aims are boundaried such that someone being egocentric on the platform benefits the platform (and vice-versa the platform’s success benefits...