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Ep. 241: The Virality Trap

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Twitter's Attention Vulture

Twitter's model is not focused on anyone will post something and other people come and comment on it. Twitter says we're going to play on the attention vanity of above average users. It created a constantly refreshed pool of above average quality information that then the cybernetic curation algorithm could play with. Adam Sobel: We need an unusually clever comedian, contrarian political thinkers who have a funny streak.

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