Tom Ewing

tomewing.bsky.social

19 October 2026 12:50

My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

Tom Ewing

tomewing.bsky.social

19 October 2026 12:49

"Make me virtuous, but not yet" is one of the all timer great insights, and one thing servives can design for is to present you with a sequence of micro choices, encouraging you away from planning, as that locks you into your basic preferences more which makes you a more reliable income stream

lauren

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

19 October 2026 12:28

this little segue where nathan fielder (unbolded text) redirects the conversation to katie drummond's theoretical enthusiasm for the movie Elf is great

Micah

rincewind.run

18 October 2026 22:55

an important part of maturing as a thinker is realizing that malcolm gladwell is and always has been full of shit

Rob Delaney

robdelaney.bsky.social

17 October 2026 15:56

who collectively - and beautifully - illustrate the coalition that assembles clumsily, creakily, humanly to fight evil. INVALUABLE watch as we assemble the popular front to vanquish Trump, the GOP & corporate Dems who aren’t up to the task.