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“Digital natives were concerned about what they could do with technology. Now data natives want to know what technology can do for them.”


“…It’s an interesting quagmire. Traditionally, new technology has expanded people’s notion of what’s possible. Now the crowd is already dreaming of products no one knows how to build yet.”


“…Giving people recommendations to interact with and learning from their choices is one of the clearest examples. The more recommendations you serve, the smarter you can get by recording and reacting to people’s preferences. This is why 35% of Amazon’s revenue comes from recommendations — and why 75% of Netflix content is consumed based on recommendations.”

http://firstround.com/review/this-is-how-you-build-products-for-the-new-generation-of-data-natives/

“…In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.


It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.


Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists. “

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783

“…Mainly, Facebook happened. Constructing social networks by blogging takes work. You have to read, respond, post. You have to stay on top of the topics sweeping through what used to be called the “blogosphere.” Facebook is much better at building social networks for people. And you don’t have to spend serious time writing essays. Twitter lowered the character count further.”

“…In fact, blogs now often are where the most interesting ideas are surfaced, argued, and appropriated into a discipline’s discourse. Unlike the output in scholarly journals and magazines, in these webs of blogs we get to see ideas emerging from conversation among people sharing what in the old days we’d take as early drafts. These webs allow participation by people regardless of credentials, enabling voices to rise to their own level of credibility. “

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/30/why-blogging-still-matters/JkzFdTxoySZZwsyrFw7yMI/story.html

#bostonglobe

“We confuse convenience with enrichment. Just because a product makes our lives more convenient does not mean it makes it better.”

“Products that make a person’s life better, that is allow them to do something they could never do before, are much more valuable than products that help them do what they can already do easier. ”

“Convenience products don’t make people want to go out and use the product, as there is no incentive to use it.”

https://medium.com/@wenqinye/making-people-s-lives-better-52db61cebf44

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