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Great article! I really liked the manipulation matrix. The author did a great job of impressing upon entrepreneurs like me to create new products that improve l
by rdudekul 14y ago
Great article! I really liked the manipulation matrix. The author did a great job of impressing upon entrepreneurs like me to create new products that improve lives by facilitating healthful habits. Couple of questions:
1) How does one balance the needs of investors while having a clear conscience to create a product that materially improves users lives but has higher costs or lowers margins?
2) Is there a fundamental behaviors matrix that defines what improves users lives?
- tomjen3 14y agoI hate it, because if I were to use it, I couldn't make a weight watcher app (I don't need or want to lose weight), I couldn't make an app to help women keep track of their period or when to take their birth control pills (I am not female). But neither of those are evil, and both of them arguably improve the lives of their users. As for how to balance having a conscience, that is easy as you need to find a product that you believe in and then you won't have moral issues with causing more people to use. If you can't find one, then realize that there is no god, no universal morals and what we believe is right or wrong can be changed. If you simply believe that you are a moral person and that you don't do things that are unethical then cognitive dissonance will ensure that you don't have any issues with you conscience.