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> Because we're a paid product, we have little incentive to read your thoughts or strip-mine your data. We're in the business of making you feel better; we're n
by mattdeboard 7y ago
> Because we're a paid product, we have little incentive to read your thoughts or strip-mine your data. We're in the business of making you feel better; we're not reading your deepest darkest secrets to figure out how to sell you shoes or something. We don't want to know your thoughts. Unless someone explicitly tells us otherwise, we treat them like passwords.
I trust you when you say this, and I trust that you are being sincere. I do not trust the incentive structures of Silicon Valley to permit you to adhere to this principle.
- flaque 7y ago> I do not trust the incentive structures of Silicon Valley to permit you to adhere to this principle. Neither do I! My point is more so that we try to take steps not just to say "hey we don't read your thoughts" but also to align the incentive systems so that 10 years down the line we're at least pointed in the right direction.
- joshspankit 7y agoWhy not switch to a Patreon model and give people simple “export all data as markdown/json” inside every version of the app? In that way there’s less incentive for the business to become potentially untrustworthy, but if it does, people’s emotional investments are still protected by being firmly in their own hands.
- mattdeboard 7y agoMy therapist can't read my mind either but I bet someone could craft some laser-targeted ads directly at my nervous system with her notes in aggregate :P I'm glad you're thinking about this. Good luck!