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Why should we assume that the way SMS, phones, mail, notifications and other channels have been handled in the past is the way they must always be handled? I work with a lot of tho…

It feels like you're assuming a traditional marketing approach to "blasting" messages and hoping they stick. That's how most marketing tools work, but it's not how all marketing to…

It's in people's nature to take sides, and, as you pointed out, technology serves whomever happens to control it. So people who control technology should use it to try to help othe…

Lot of strong feelings here about push notifications :) I think it's worth pointing out that (1) there are many people out there who find push notifications useful or even desirabl…

Let's take the bike company example. There are three main ways you could vary our outreach to potential customers: time, topic, and text. Just think about timing: when is the best …

This article is a combination of a straw-man argument and a bad analogy. The authors say [personalization] = [3rd-party data categories] * [appeals to non-universal emotional assoc…

I wrote this specifically for data science jobs but I think it translates reasonably well into any technical role: https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-career-advice-to... T…

Here are some ideas: https://hackernoon.com/can-we-be-honest-about-ethics-ecf5840... https://towardsdatascience.com/an-ethical-code-cant-be-about... https://hackernoon.com/on-the-d…

I've tried to flesh out some of the discussion of systemic risk here: https://hackernoon.com/can-we-be-honest-about-ethics-ecf5840... I'm not questioning the documents' merits, or …