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I think the sentiment you describe has more to do with alignment of interests: Starbucks wants to sell you coffee, free online services on the other hand want to sell access-to-you to some third party. There also aren't the same network effects. No one feels obligated to visit Starbucks even though they dislike it due to all their friends/family only conversing at Starbucks.
> Starbucks wants to sell you coffee, free online services on the other hand want to sell access-to-you to some third party. That's exactly the business model of shopping malls. They create a fun place to hang out at that just happens to have hundreds of shops. > There also aren't the same network effects. No one feels obligated to visit Starbucks even though they dislike it due to all their friends/family only conve…
Group chats rule the world
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Re: Group chats rule the world
#192On shared rituals, the ones I like the most are 1. Good mornings. Where it's a norm to post "Good morning" or equivalent at the start of your day. It signals that you're continuing to participate and value the group. 2. @Welcomes. When a new member joins, they are @-ed with a welcome message by the users currently present. It helps expand the join->engage funnel. Some groups have a lot of people show up and then neve…
This might just be me, but I actually hate these things. They always feel forced and corny and seeing the notification in a channel and thinking it is something interesting only to have it be another copy paste good morning message is distracting and annoying. I fully acknowledge I may be the odd one out here, as I find any repeated action like this quickly becomes either noise that gets ignored or creates a sense of…
I am the type that likes saying good morning and telling people to have a good weekend on chat.
This is largely for myself. It makes me feel like I am part of the team. It is how I would interact on any team I am part of.
Most other people on the team don't respond and that is perfectly fine. I would say I am more the odd one out than you though. You sound more like the average person who thinks it is kind of stupid so doesn't respond.
Re: Group chats rule the world
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Yes, being rich affords you access to the right side of the bell curve
This is even worse phrasing than when people say "order of magnitude more" and mean "more", because it makes you think everything is normally distributed, but it isn't.