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This Friday at 3pm ET, I’m hosting an AMA with @eugene in this channel! 

He’s an incisive student of tech, authoring classics like Status as a Service and Seeing like an Algorithm.

Ask him about social networks, consumer product, and insights from his years as a product exec at Oculus, Hulu, and Flipboard!

investing & writing about consumer tech since 2016. FID #30. hosting /web2web3 

https://www.lisnewsletter.com/

Flipboard!! 😍 Question: what design choices helped Flipboard work with longer-form, fact-checked journalistic sources can today’s platforms emulate to slow media consumption and create informed and thoughtful humans? Or are the cards dealt/are we in a one-way race to worse content (sensational, shorter, reactive)?

𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚛 in training. I study how shared identities form around new technology. In my spare time, I create and collect jpegs.

I'm somewhat pessimistic on this front right now. A transition that it was hard to navigate at Flipboard was the rise of social media and then engagement-based algos. It turns out humans care more about what other people feel about news than the news itself.

This is logical, by the way, in a status-seeking framework. We care more about how others are reacting to news because that helps us understand how we should react to achieve status within the group. Even being contrarian is a path to status.