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How to Make Tech Products (that Don’t Cause Depression and War)

Picture a typical technologist: she watches how her users scroll, click, and engage with her product. Based on what she sees, she makes…

5 min readOct 27, 2021

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How to Make Tech Products (that Don’t Cause Depression and War)

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Human Values

A Quick Primer

11 min readOct 26, 2021

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The Tamagotchi Trap

8 min readOct 26, 2021

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Can software be good for us?

We must face a deep challenge to design software for meaningful interaction and time well spent

7 min readOct 26, 2021

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The Design Landscape & Values-Misaligned Systems

Why do bureaucracies of good people do bad things?

5 min readAug 19, 2021

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The Design Landscape & Values-Misaligned Systems

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Joe Edelman

Four Social Worlds

☝️ This essay is also available on the Human Systems notion, and is part of the course materials for HS101 Deluxe.

10 min readFeb 10, 2020

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Four Social Worlds

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Joe Edelman

Public Debate and Institutional Legitimacy

Or — What Can We Do Locally about Politics?

5 min readMar 21, 2019

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Public Debate and Institutional Legitimacy

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Radical Redesigns — Are They All About Allocations?

I am inspired by a political movement, going by the name Radical Markets. And yet I have reservations about its vocabulary and framing…

5 min readFeb 21, 2019

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The Mottoes We Live By

This is part 3 of The Next Enlightenment (but it should read fine on its own).

4 min readNov 7, 2018

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Joe Edelman

How I Wasted My 20s (Pursuing Goals)

Coming to Terms with my Non-Goal Drives

5 min readOct 24, 2018

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