#BetterHumans
Research and content related to upgrading the human emotional operating system.
Collection by Chris Messina
The Atlantic
It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda.
11+ min · · You don’t need fake accounts to spread propaganda online. Real people will happily do it. · Shared by 143, including Matt Navarra, Mark Little, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Brian Stelter, luis antónio santos, Renee DiResta, mdy, Lessig 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Jason Hirschhorn, Amber Mac, Christopher Mims 🤌, 👨🏻💻☕️
Vox
These apps make a game out of relieving anxiety. They may be onto something.
12+ min · · Popular apps are awarding points for beating "bad guys" and completing "power-ups" — and drawing from real, clinically approved treatments. · Shared by 138, including dreig (Dolors Reig), Chris Messina, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, Dr. Deborah Serani
The Cut
Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?
20+ min · · Confessions from inside the algorithm. · Shared by 135, including Chris Messina, swissmiss, Liliane Ferrari ™, tylercowen, Mark Kaigwa, Fanzo, anildash.com, Mathew Ingram, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Grace Bonney, Carl Morris
UX Collective
A three-step framework for solving problems 🤔
11+ min · · Nothing is more certain to cause a project to fail than a misunderstanding of the problem you are solving. · Shared by 119, including Oscar MacDonald, Fabricio Teixeira, laugri, Massimiliano Aroffo, Stu Collett, Andy Budd, Niklaus Gerber, Stefan Weber, Chris Messina, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, designshard
Singularity Hub
New AI Systems Are Here to Personalize Learning
4 min · · Can the technologies automating jobs also help workers learn the skills they'll need to find new work in the changing economy? This AI learning startup thinks so. · Shared by 113, including Bryan Kramer - Keynote Speaker, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Messina, Damir Kusar, Tamara McCleary, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Ines Bieler, Thomas Power, John Hagel, Brian Ahier
Fast Company
The new digital divide is between people who opt out of algorithms and people who don’t
4 min · · Here are three ways to take control of the algorithms in your life. · Shared by 112, including 瑞拿頭, Niklaus Gerber, Bertrand Maltaverne, Ines Bieler, Thomas Power, Ste Davies, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Paolo Sinelli, Klaus Eck, Bernhard Huessy, Yves Mulkers, Chris Messina, Cindy Krum 📱
The Atlantic
How AI Will Rewire Us
9 min · · For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship. · Shared by 112, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Elena Neira, Bill Johnston, fernand0, luis antónio santos, Philanthropy News Digest, Gerd Leonhard, Nir Eyal, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Chris Messina, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Amber Mac, Irene Au
BuzzFeed News
Behind Twitter’s Plan To Get People To Stop Yelling At Each Other
11+ min · · Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix itself shows how daunting of a task that will be. · Shared by 102, including Matt Navarra, Bertrand Maltaverne, Brian Solis, Kat, Oliver Reichenstein, Jonah Peretti, Joanna J Bryson, Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa
WIRED
Andy Rubin’s New Phone Thing Isn’t Just a New Phone Thing
3 min · · The Essential Gem's unveiling makes clear that it's becoming harder to disassociate new products from the people making them. · Shared by 98, including Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, 👨🏻💻☕️, Megan Quinn, anildash.com, Chris Messina
The Guardian
The race to create a perfect lie detector
18+ min · · The long read: AI and brain-scanning technology could soon make it possible to reliably detect when people are lying. But do we really want to know? · Shared by 98, including Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Dean Anthony Gratton, Esther Schindler, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Chris Messina, Faik Ersoy, Andreas Staub, British Psychological Society
The New York Times
Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students
9 min · · The cognitive scientist Laurie Santos says “we’re fighting cultural forces that are telling us, ‘You’re not happy enough.’” · Shared by 97, including Dave Nussbaum, Felix M, Howard Getson, justin caouette, Erin, Lauren Goode, Chris Messina, Robert Roy Britt, Anne Helen Petersen, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Tiffany Shlain, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, C.C. Chapman, Anita Leirfall, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Daron Larson
wellbeing.google
Our commitment to Digital Wellbeing
8 min · · Great technology should improve life, not distract from it. We’re creating products and features that better people’s relationships with technology. · Shared by 91, including Tom D'Amico, Chris Messina, Hugo Londoño, Mark Kaigwa, Nir Eyal, Dominik Grolimund, Christian P. Stobbe, Jakub Ferenc, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Jeremiah Owyang, Marc G., Oscar MacDonald, Ron McIntyre, Jean Decherf, Thomas Power, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina
MIT Technology Review
Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind
3 min · · Big tech firms are trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences. · Shared by 88, including Sebastien Meunier, Katja Evertz, Luca Like, Gerrit Eicker, Jeff Keni Pulver 🌻, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Mathew Ingram, Vikram Dutt, Andreas Staub, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Liliane Ferrari ™, Matt Navarra, Chris Messina, Pippa Malmgren, Claudia Sommer
The New York Times
Shareholder Value Is No Longer Everything, Top C.E.O.s Say
6 min · · Chief executives from the Business Roundtable, including the leaders of Apple and JPMorgan, argued that companies must invest in employees and deliver value to customers. · Shared by 84, including Gerd Leonhard, ExApologist, Thomas Power, Ted Coiné, Steve Case, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Yvette Dubel, Chris Skinner, rudolph regter, Molly Wood, Charles Adler, Bjorn Larsen, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian Solis, Chris Messina
The New York Times
There Is No Tech Backlash
7 min · · Worse, we think there is one. · Shared by 79, including Keith Rabois, Thomas Power, Michael (मुकेश), Gerrit Eicker, Matthias Lampe, Benedict Evans, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Vikram Dutt, felix salmon, Evan Selinger
WIRED
Tristan Harris: Tech Is ‘Downgrading Humans.’ It’s Time to Fight Back
9 min · · The creator of the “time well spent” movement disappeared for a year, but now he’s come back with a new phrase and a plan to stop technology from from destroying free will, creating social anomie, and… · Shared by 79, including Mathew Ingram, Remy Bataille, Klaus Eck, Leslie D, Brian Solis, Ricky Yean, Chris Messina, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, elpocas