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The Facilitator: When you create something that you would use and that you believe makes the user’s life better, you are facilitating a healthy habit. It is important to note that only you can decide if you would actually use the product or service, and what “materially improving the life of the user” really means in light of what you are creating.

— Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

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  1. Being curious means asking questions about why things work the way they do, and embracing unfamiliar situations or topics with a sense of wonder. Being observant means training yourself to see the details that most others often miss. Being fickle means capturing ideas without feeling the need to fully understand or analyze them in that moment. Being thoughtful means taking the time to reflect on a point of view and share it in a considered way. Being elegant means developing your ability to describe a concept in a beautiful and simple way for easy understanding. — Non-Obvious: How to […]
  2. Talk We dropped our bags, five of us getting back from a trip to share our boons with the Wanukus. Meluna the designer, Sojuku the developer, Jakubu the technical architect, Danak the systems admin, and Kutoka the counter. Kutoka, being the oldest in the group, naturally feels the urge to start the conversation after a long and stressful trip. “So, that didn’t go as we expected, huh?” Silence. Meluna gasps in frustration “The Wanukus can be some of the most difficult group of people to get along with.” We went on a trip to the Wanukus after a long deliberation […]
  3. When studying events, we look at them through analytical, logical lenses. We break them down into small, understandable chunks, and we fish for scapegoats while looking for cause-and-effect relationships. Is the economy going south? It must be the result of the poor decisions of a politician. Is the newspaper arriving late? That lazy mailman. For sure, he stopped to chat with the neighbor. Is your wife cold and distant lately? It must be her job. We seek linear, immediate, sensible explanations for problems surrounding us. But by doing so, we run the risk of seeing issues as being inflicted […]
  4. According to Kurzweil, “the Singularity is near,” it’s inevitable, and all we have to do is prepare ourselves to accept it. But no matter how many trends can be traced, the future won’t happen on its own. What the Singularity would look like matters less than the stark choice we face today between the two most likely scenarios: nothing or something. It’s up to us. We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today. Whether we achieve the Singularity on a cosmic scale is perhaps less […]
  5. The cycle of conflict, mystery, and resolution is as old as storytelling itself, and at the heart of every good tale is variability. The unknown is fascinating and strong stories hold our attention by waiting to reveal what happens next. In a phenomenon called “experience-taking,” researchers have shown that people who read a story about a character actually feel what the protagonist is feeling. As we step into the character’s shoes we experience his or her motivations — including the search for rewards of the tribe, hunt, and self. — Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal […]

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