Digital Ethics

The French are putting legal limits on being “on.”

Blog about vim, css, and design.

Silicon Valley’s most successful tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to pump us with dopamine and keep us returning to their products. But, as Ian Leslie learns, some of the

The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.

Testimony from those working to keep beheadings, bestiality and child sexual abuse images off Facebook indicates that the support provided isn’t enough

Company acknowledges ‘passive’ consumption of material can make people ‘feel worse’ but argues more engagement could improve wellbeing

A while back I wrote something which made a number of people angry: Any new social structure must throw off surplus that people can live on, and that surplus must not be able to be bought up by the old system, which will seek to do so. The ban against selling out/being bought out must be irrational and ideological. Rational people

You can build it, but should you?

The case against empathy.

A data collection service called SafeGraph collected 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones during the holiday last year.

With toys for children that declare their love and want to chat, we bring to life a longstanding fantasy that machines might be our companions, that they might seem to not only be smart, but also to care about us.

Today’s guest is a repeat visitor to the show whose last episode proved to be one of our most popular. Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke Un

The last year has demonstrated a sea change in design, as designers have created products that serve our deepest needs, rather than exploit them.

I temporarily closed my FB group last week because of this pattern: white women were getting free educations and 1:1 support in the comment threads, primarily from women of colour. This was exhausting, frustrating and hurtful to women of colour. As the leader of the group, it’s my responsibility to create a different environment and dynamic […]

In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world…

Google killed off a new Maps feature in under a day because it rubbed users the wrong way. What can we learn from this in building our own products?

Three ways that modern internet technologies are tearing our young people apart

“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by …

What you think you believe and what your unconscious associations reveal about your beliefs are often very different.

It's Your World. Sexual Violence Doesn't Belong in It.

"The Influential Mind" introduces less-than-intuitive tactics for changing beliefs and behaviors.

Self-determination theory (SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that concerns people's inherent growth tendencies and innate psychological needs. It is concerned with the motivation behind choices people make without external influence and interference. SDT focuses on the degree to which an individual's behavior is self-motivated and self-determined.[1][2][3]

I don’t want to brag, but I’m really good at sleeping. I close my eyes and fall asleep in about 45 seconds. I wake up eight hours later, no interruptions. Once, I read a Reddit thread about how sl