C. Thi Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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Addiction via user interface design.
And that's a 20-year-old story.
And the more research I did, the more I thought, that's the wrong story.
That's like 1% of the story.
Because so much of what's going on involves no carefully gamified user interface apps.
A lot of what's going on is
Educational institutions being warped by the U.S.
News and World Report university ranking.
There's no app there, right?
There's just a ranking published in some magazine.
And similarly, I think what's actually going on, and I think salary is such a clear vision of this, is that what we're orienting towards is the kinds of things that
That require no context to count and that that is an orientation towards quantification that is part of this bureaucratic landscape and that the story is actually about a thousand years old.
It's about a thousand years of a slow and steady progress away from sensitive high context judgment towards quantification.
highly accessible, simplified targets.
And I just want to say, I'm not saying that metrics are always bad because the thing that makes them good is exactly this thing.
The idea that Porter has, this engineered portability, it's not that metrics are bad.
It's that they have a very powerful function for which there is a very powerful design price.
The function is portability.
The cost is low sensitivity.
So what happened was wines go really well with food.
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