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by npunt 6y ago
One of the explicit design choices in this was to limit people's tendency to screw up apologies in the heated moments when they haven't yet internalized the outside world's perspective of their message. I'm glad you brou
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by npunt 6y ago
True, quote tweeting (I think you mean retweet with comment) yourself is another option, however I don't see it as fundamentally different to replies. If people are liking, retweeting, or replying to the original tweet, it will continu
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by npunt 6y ago
I don't think twitter is not allowing de-escalation as much as they haven't figured out how to do it. The product itself hasn't changed much in a long time, and there are likely many internal reasons for that that have little
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by npunt 6y ago
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised nobody has picked up on the forgiveness part. The more I worked on this, the more it's necessity became clear. I think it's a more subtle point, but it's a powerful way to restore relationships
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by npunt 6y ago
Twitter isn't just one thing, it's composed of many communities of various sizes and closeness. Some communities are toxic and enjoy kicking people when they're down, others less so. We tend to recall only the extremes of the
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by npunt 6y ago
Agree completely. Negative social media behavior is many times just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger issue of the fabric of society being torn, of our spirits hurting, and of psychological issues surfacing. We must acknowledge this a
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by npunt 6y ago
One of the most powerful tools in design is friction. The more friction things take, the less they'll be done, and visa versa. Taking screenshots of later deleted tweets is high friction, so it only comes in the most extreme circumstan
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by npunt 6y ago
To be fair, in the language section I point out this is explicitly not using the language of apology (for some of the reasons you bring up), but is instead a more neutral admission of mistake.
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It certainly won't work for all cases of conflict, but don't you think it would work for some? The goal was not a complete solution but a step towards changing community norms.
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by npunt 6y ago
Good idea, I was trying to use existing Twitter designs as much as possible but agree emphasis is lost. See the top image in the Follow-ups section where the mistake is represented atop the tweet for something more along what you're th
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by npunt 6y ago
Sorry, we don't even understand the 'realistic' worst case scenario. We've blown past previous estimates of temperature rise and atmospheric co2 by decades. It's a nonlinear system with many unknowns, this is why it
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by npunt 6y ago
Quibi saddled a weird new idea for media to a traditional paywall streaming service business model. Irrespective of anything else, that's a bad start. Traditional media subscriptions work because you know what you're getting - sit
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by npunt 6y ago
This might be better framed as D&D's chaotic good alignment. I find it weird to say good founders should 'delight in breaking rules', as that is a really consumer tech biased (and frankly, privileged teenage male) point
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by npunt 6y ago
Don't forget that loudly leaving and quietly returning is the nature of many supposed changes in the world.
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by npunt 6y ago
Eh, not really. Symbian was right for the wrong reasons . They were right to warn users about apps using internet access, but they were wrong about the reason - it was about data caps, not privacy or security. Data caps mattered in that er
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by npunt 6y ago
One of the most pervasive and lazy ways to think about humans is that we're rational (homo economicus [0]), and any deviation from that is a personal failing. While some people have better impulse control than others, or have different
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by npunt 6y ago
Understandable from perspective of how apps are developed, but from the user perspective comparing Firefox on Mac to Safari on Mac is literally comparing software on Apples to software on Apples.
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Chiplets and better interposers make yield/binning less of a need than before
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Thats mostly because of thermals, which are drastically different on Mac.
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Rather than go through the trouble of entering a new complicated market building an EHR to unseat some very entrenched players and force retraining of millions of healthcare workers, which would be relatively antithetical to Apple’s consume
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by npunt 6y ago
Let me copy/paste what I wrote the last time this perspective on iPhone apps came up: Remember they were literally defining everything at the beginning - OS, UX, APIs, core features, hardware, first party apps, market positioning, etc
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Consider perhaps part of the reason kids can adapt to new teachers each year is because there's consistency among the other members of the community, and that swapping the entire community out each year might be detrimental to their ex
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What GP is referring to is just noticeable difference (JND) which is a common technique used in sensory & perception studies and has solid foundations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-noticeable_difference
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Totally. Part of the issue is there's at least two parallel markets in K12 edtech - school & home. I know there's lots of good stuff available for schools that just isn't designed for or available for home use. Meanwhile
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Tech can definitely teach some things to some people, but among other things it cannot create the context for teaching. This issue has been pretty well explored in the edtech community for a long time, and of course pedagogical research for
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True, they're also not needed as much in the summer. Question is how quickly should we dismantle our institutions, and what are the long term costs of that? Were schools better funded, they would be able to absorb some disruptions in t
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Yes. Maybe not for you, or for all students, but for some, yes. It takes a village to raise a kid, not just those formally designated 'teachers'.
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And what about the instructional aides and other staff that do have significant training? And what about the web of relationships formed between the staff and students, including those between the janitors, lunch servers, etc and students?
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That's because if you know anything about education, you know it's about human relationships as much as it is about pouring knowledge into empty vessels.

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