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No, Seriously, F*ck Engagement: Building a More Human Webaxe-con 20252025-02-25
Argues that web personalization and engagement metrics reward content near the line of prohibition and literally cost lives, citing the 2017–18 Rohingya…
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No, Seriously, F**k Engagement: Building a More Human Webbeyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20242024-05-13
Shows specific harms and choices: Facebook’s 2018 natural engagement pattern rewards content that spikes shares and escalates hate, and that amplification…
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“That’s great, but how do I convince my boss ” Overcoming Bias to Advocate for Changeaxe-con 20242024-02-20
Organizations make about 95% of decisions below conscious awareness and incentives drive behavior not values for example Wells Fargo agents created 2 million…
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Design for Cognitive BiasCompass Tech Summit 20232023-10-05
Design choices change behavior: anonymizing resumes (Philadelphia prints and redacts, plus a Chrome plugin whose code is on GitHub) cuts gender/race signals…
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The Content Design of Civil Discoursebeyond tellerrand Berlin 20222022-09-01
Claims that wording and environment shift outcomes from “should” fights to how conversations backed by concrete tools and results The talk demonstrates design…
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Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for GoodAgile India 20212021-11-18
Shows specific biases and fixes: evidence that confirmation bias sank Amazon’s resume-screener (it downgraded women) and that a Philadelphia anonymized-resume…
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