“Define victory conditions. Write down success and failure criteria. These should be, at least in theory, within your control. If it’s mostly luck, then it’s not a game — it’s gambling.”
How to Gamify Your Life
Most of the Internet Is Fake
“Less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake.”
10 Biases to Be Aware of When Building a Product
“The ‘principle of least effort’ basically states that if there are a few ways to get something done, people will always prefer the one that requires the least amount of work.”
Screen Time Isn’t as Bad for Kids as You Think
“Exposure to digital media has both positive benefits and dangerous drawbacks. A small percentage of kids are perhaps more vulnerable than others to problematic relationships with devices. And context, content, and the type of interaction may matter as much as time spent on devices.”Continue reading →
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting.” — Richard Feynman
18 Ideas About How To Make Smarter Decisions From The Book “Thinking In Bets”
Every decision we make is a bet.
How those bets turn out is determined by a wide variety of factors (including luck), but there are specific ways you can tilt the odds in your favor.
The Difference Between a Job, Hobby, Career, and Vocation
“If you’re in a career right now that you hate, that’s terrible. If you’re in a job that you hate, that’s OK — it doesn’t matter.”
How to Avoid Lazy Thinking
“You say you want your team to think harder and stop just doing exactly what you say. But every time they have a question, you just answer it. Or worse, you give them a wrist slap for bringing you a new idea.”
Four Mistakes to Avoid When Building an Online Community
“Your goal should be for a ‘network effect’ to take hold in your community. The value of your product should increase exponentially with each user, and this usually requires a manual process that you can’t scale immediately.”
Attention Is Not a Resource, It’s an Experience
“Conceiving of attention as a resource misses the fact that attention is not just useful. It’s more fundamental than that: attention is what joins us with the outside world.”