Hi Twitter hivemind! Given what’s happening in my country, anyone here have behavioral economics or research case studies on combatting disinformation? I do follow @firstdraftnews , but checking if there are other research projects as well
"If you do not actively choose a better way, then society, culture, and the general inertia of life will push you into a worse way. The default is distraction, not improvement."
-@JamesClear
Had a chat with @yellowicepick earlier, talking about her transition from research to product, where we want to go in our careers, and discovering we both experienced ad hoc product management roles, despite not having official experience 😅
Thank you Angela for the time! 🙌
My twitter feed is now a toxic hellhole and I’ll be removing it from my phone, to preserve my sanity.
I’ll be looking for a different social feed, sadly. And, I’ll just look for the people I admire and follow, elsewhere.
Fox News is owned by Rupert Murdoch, Facebook/Instagram is owned by Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter is owned by Elon Musk.
But remember, MAGA Republicans tell us every single day that they have no voice in America. You can’t make this up.
Serious question though: Where else is there a forum where I can openly follow people I admire as they share raw thoughts, life and work lessons - That aren’t fully controlled by a likes-powered algorithm? So it’s only *casually* engaging
99% of the internet network runs through submarine cables. There are over 420 submarine lines in the world, totalling 1.3 million km, over 3 times the distance from Earth to Moon.
[Tyler Morgan-Wall: buff.ly/3vTBa9P]
“Now, I had considered X as well; it is in my “mental model.” The difficult part, the part that is almost impossible to figure out without experience, is judging the importance of X”- Title is clickbait, but content highlights value of real-world practice unfashionable.substack.com/p…
Things I don’t miss from enterprise work: Politics is part of life, and all jobs. I know this now.
But, power plays defeating objective business benefits are the pits.
Happy anniversary! To the project and team whose work I admire most. And have tried to learn from (in any publicly available way) for a decade. 🙌🏽 @GDSTeam
We’re celebrating 10 years since @GOVUK launched today with @GDSTeam.
Since going live @GOVUK has merged nearly 2,000 separate government websites into one, giving the public consistent, quick and easy access to information, services and guidance when they need it most.
Job-to-be-done features: When I want to do an unfettered brain dump, I use Evernote, so that I can focus on pure “text”. Contrast: The immediacy of Notion’s formatting controls chunkiness of font style gives my brain a sense of pressure that my thoughts have to be more formed