Loop In, Loop Out (Business Models and Media) - Unintended Consequences
How did news and social media business models develop loops of addiction, poor choices and greater risk?| Unintended Consequences
How did news and social media business models develop loops of addiction, poor choices and greater risk?| Unintended Consequences
How selection of a snippet of history -- a clip -- influences our interpretation. Why "the clip" as a phenomenon will not go away.| Unintended Consequences
Between the Current Thing and the Great American Safety Valve is another pathway to guiding desired social change. That of designing a grand new outcome, in its entirety, top-down, in one attempt. To decree a deity. Has it ever worked? Or, to quote from Christopher Alexander, on “unselfconscious” and “selfconscious” cultures, why does it fail? … Continue reading "Decreeing the Deity"| Unintended Consequences
The spark for this post was an article published in The Century Magazine in 1892. In it the author explains to a foreign visitor the odd way that Americans keep the peace. I couldn’t improve upon the article’s title, “The Great American Safety Valve,” so I stole it for my title. It’s a short, informal … Continue reading "The Great American Safety Valve"| Unintended Consequences
If you pay attention online you might have heard of “The Current Thing.” What’s The Current Thing? The Current Thing is any concept that grabs hold of public attention, sometimes out of nowhere, and which demands an answer: are you for or against? I also like Marc Andreessen’s explanation. If not supporting it gets you … Continue reading "Engineering the Current Thing"| Unintended Consequences
