What if? What if we re-thought what "social" means, to rid ourselves of the dark elements and instead promote the enriching parts?
In this episode, we talk to Brian Amerige, CEO and co-founder of Thoughtful, and who takes us on a journey on rethinking social. His app, Thoughtful (available at https://thoughtful.community/Brian) represents his effort to bring this vision to reality.
Specifically, we discuss:
- Why we need ideas to flourish as humans
- How current social platforms promote non-enriching content, leading to toxic environments.
- How Thoughtful promotes ideas through the consumption of interesting content.
- Why "Thoughtful time" creates a number for screen time you should be proud of.
- The marketplace for new apps is still huge - especially for positive, human centric apps.
- In Thoughtful, engagement with people is limited to the extent it can help engagement with ideas.
- Why metrics at Thoughtful are used to inform decisions but not make decisions.
- How the "judgement coefficient" helps match individual interests with other people with similar interests, and their recommendations, regardless of popularity of that content.
- How you could use Thoughtful to improve your college experience
- Why students should focus on problems when thinking about their career.
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