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And we wonder why people are so fucked up, people building apps just want you to be hopelessly addicted so they can make more money from ads. It’s hard to find design books on optimizing human well-being. Why does our relationship with computers have to be framed around getting users hooked on crack? There is something seriously wrong with our industry.

jb55 @jb55 · 92w

Replying to @Matt

When i tried to google design books around this concept all i found were books and how to keep users addicted. Let’s not care about peoples well being, let’s just get them hooked 🙄 https://i.nostr.build/mlg0v.jpg

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Ruminant Llama · 92w

THIS! 😡 It's the age of exploitation

I think this is just the byproduct of capitalism. When the incentive is to hoard as much capital as possible as competitively as allowed. We end up with this.

Sebastix · 92w

The design of everyday things (Don Norman) The laws of Simplicity (John Maeda)

Machu Pikacchu · 92w

Thankfully the community is starting to push back organically. A lot of us are no longer willing to use ad supported services that abuse us because of their bad incentives. When a service uses ads for support, the person paying them is not the consumer but rather a disinterested third party. That c...

ChipTuner · 92w

What have we become?

Let’s stop reading books that Big Media recommends and start doing our own research!! nostr:note1kn2v07q5q77c065hyst6mx8n0wyrascxyv8fqc884w64d7u2z4sqxj3n6n

It’s funny that his second book was about managing distractions. Selling bullets and body armour. https://m.primal.net/IHmx.jpg

BrianFitzwater · 92w

Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius.

It is about incentives. People won't pay for it because the cost of addiction is mostly invisible, hard to acknowledge and people generally don't care about it.

it’s the highest ROI and least regulated business.

Pepe NOSTRos · 92w

because they just want our money and addicts are profitable is my guess.

Just build cli apps .. as granular as cd, ls and vi etc ..but in #nostr context and let them pipe into each other .. you don't need any book , you already have Unix philosophy to guide you :-)

berean jones · 92w

Don't forget 69,420

nostrich · 92w

"it's not addictive if everyone's doing it."

Money Isn't Necessary · 92w

money is broken. everything is because money. every heart attack is due to inflation (cheaper ingredients, seed oils to disguise higher prices)

Money Isn't Necessary · 92w

I say don't get the jab, don't eat seed oils, don't eat sugar it causes cancer. they say "oh everything causes cancer" no. only things created after 1900 cause cancer.

Neon Box · 91w

Thai is just one aspect of our industry that is fucked up…

nostrich · 89w

Marketing and addiction are totally normalized in our societies and it’s really weird. I’m glad to be working in the nostr space to fight this.