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Veyrain Paperrain's avatar

Perhaps the most powerful incentives are the ones we stop noticing. People often optimize for whatever is being measured, even when the metric slowly drifts away from the original purpose.

Lamar Elimbo's avatar

Very interesting point! I generally think that some of the most powerful influences are ones we overlook, so that’s a really great thought!

James Kerr's avatar

Funny that I came here from your comment but love this concept, Lamar. The idea white-hatting principles of engagement is great.

Definitely up for giving the extension a go. Will sub!

Lamar Elimbo's avatar

Thanks so much, James! After reading that post of yours this morning, I really hope it connects more people to your great writing and ideas. I'm still thinking about how great that value capture vs value creation framework is!

Jake, Unthinkable Angles's avatar

Hey Lamar i think this is a fantastic tool to track our own intentionality and play the “right” ball game.

Might I suggest: this even revives the “social” part of social media.

I mostly use substack on the app right now and the desktop to edit my pieces. I don’t think I’d use this tool yet, but I love what you’re doing with it.

Lamar Elimbo's avatar

Thank you so much!

I've never even thought about how “social media” has become such a misnomer when so many of us use it solely as media. That's such a great observation!

I really appreciate your support, thank you so much again!

Matty Reed's avatar

This is awesome! Does it work for Brave Browser too?? (trying to answer my own question)

Matty Reed's avatar

dang still shows 0 comments 🥲

Lamar Elimbo's avatar

Thank you so much! It doesn't work outside of Chrome yet, but I'll see if I can give it some encouragement and convince it to be brave enough to venture into other browsers too 🐣

Cam Beversluis's avatar

This is honestly awesome. I wonder what it might look like to extend to other engagement/attention economy applications?

Lamar Elimbo's avatar

Thank you so much 🥹

Ooh I think that would be absolutely awesome! I hope somebody takes this idea and runs with it to other apps too!