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In apps: Ten Percent Happier and Headspace? In meatspace: Nike, Adidas?

rglullis 3y ago
Sport gear companies? Just selling you a lifestyle and an identity. Meditation apps feel more like someone exploiting a fad than some with an actual interest in your wellbeing.
- robotresearcher 3y ago
  I dunno, I think that might be overly cynical. You might as well complain that a brain surgeon only removes tumors because they get money for it. Does Nike want me to run and jump less, to participate in sports less, to work out less often? No, they run expensive ad campaigns encouraging me to make exercise a regular part of my life. To sell apparel, yes, but they aren't telling me to eat more cheeseburgers or drink more booze like other corporations.
  - rglullis 3y ago
    Where is their skin in the game? A doctor that makes a bad diagnostic might suffer a malpractice lawsuit, or at the very least will be known for their incompetence. What happens with Nike for customers that bought their products but never get to do anything? Do they give any type of money back?
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RugnirViking 3y ago
these are kinda depressing. I was thinkinbg duolingo as well but something I realise especially with the meditation apps is how much they almost impressively manage to subvert what they were origianlly. As time goes on they cater more to marl and less to actually achieving anything. Like the duolingo redesign. It's one of the reasons I generally seek out smaller companies for stuff like this. The biggest company in these sorts of categories gets there by being entirely unhelpful at its stated goals :( Even the shoes. You'll get so much better service from a mid sized distributor that actually cares than mass market conglomerates. If you ask for advice it will be sincerely given rather than a premade statement calibrated to tap into base impulse version of you to increase your likelihood of spending the most

Sport gear companies? Just selling you a lifestyle and an identity. Meditation apps feel more like someone exploiting a fad than some with an actual interest in your wellbeing.

robotresearcher 3y ago
I dunno, I think that might be overly cynical. You might as well complain that a brain surgeon only removes tumors because they get money for it. Does Nike want me to run and jump less, to participate in sports less, to work out less often? No, they run expensive ad campaigns encouraging me to make exercise a regular part of my life. To sell apparel, yes, but they aren't telling me to eat more cheeseburgers or drink more booze like other corporations.
- rglullis 3y ago
  Where is their skin in the game? A doctor that makes a bad diagnostic might suffer a malpractice lawsuit, or at the very least will be known for their incompetence. What happens with Nike for customers that bought their products but never get to do anything? Do they give any type of money back?
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RugnirViking 3y ago

these are kinda depressing. I was thinkinbg duolingo as well but something I realise especially with the meditation apps is how much they almost impressively manage to subvert what they were origianlly. As time goes on they cater more to marl and less to actually achieving anything. Like the duolingo redesign. It's one of the reasons I generally seek out smaller companies for stuff like this. The biggest company in these sorts of categories gets there by being entirely unhelpful at its stated goals :( Even the shoes. You'll get so much better service from a mid sized distributor that actually cares than mass market conglomerates. If you ask for advice it will be sincerely given rather than a premade statement calibrated to tap into base impulse version of you to increase your likelihood of spending the most