Source--Tedx,Let's make technology that helps us spend our time well Tristan Harris
ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5rRh9AZf4
This is a talk in 2014 where Tristan Harris of The Social Dilemia, talked about how to make app design to create time well spent instead of just time spent.
In particular he talks about Group chat and what if we designed it to not interrupt people but to hold onto the messages till a person's focus time was done:
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He says this only works if a person can bypass her interruption so that she knows if things are truly important that people can still get a hold of her. I personally think that a call would work, because when things are really bad, people call. Interestingly this is exactly how Slack is designed, although I don't think it helps very much based on how low the usage of the feature is. It doesn't help you focus by default, it's not a pit of success but rather a pit of dispair, Defaults matter.
We are boldozing eachother's attention
Reminds me of [[Source--Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too#Threads don't work because of rabid bull of real-time chat|Why I Hate Slack talks about the rabid bull]].
The crazy thing is that the more interuptions we get externally trains us to self interupt, most likely because of our brains getting addited to Dopamine.
Better Goal
😬 Bad goal for Group chat
Send messages quickly and easily
😃Good goal for Group chat
High-quality communication and relationships
What if instead of a spellcheck we had a compassion check?
Couchsurfing
They minused the time well spent from the time on the website!
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