Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
How Social Media Hacks Our Brains
https://www.humanetech.com/brain-science
Our evolved biology serves us brilliantly in many ways but also includes vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Persuasive technology—technology that shapes attitudes and behavior—pushes many of these buttons, leveraging our vulnerabilities to generate engagement and, ultimately, corporate revenue.
A Problem Well-Stated Is Half-Solved
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/a-problem-well-stated-is-half-solved
We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
Advice to Innovation Boards: Don’t Make Decisions
https://kromatic.com/blog/advice-to-innovation-boards-dont-make-decisions
Every big company has a group of high-ranking people — usually C-Suiters and C-adjacents — who meet on a regular basis to decide if innovation projects live or die. Innovation projects need funding, people, and time, and it’s this group that decides where those resources go, essentially defining the future of the organization.
How can digital help Mind support their vast network of mental health charities amidst the Covid crisis?
https://reasondigital.com/blog/digital-mind-mental-health-covid/
Two weeks of focus. One big challenge. The team here at Reason and Superhighways recently joined forces as Collaborators of Catalyst. The goal of this collaboration was to support national mental health charity, Mind, with a hefty organisational challenge, using digital to do so.