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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.