Michael Flux

Product, UX, Design & Data - Founder of

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Invest in companies which deliver great user experiences. People and their money will always gravitate to those companies.

This of course applies only to products targetting people. This strategy won't work with say, Lockheed, where their products literally target people.

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@ylecun @SwipeWright @elonmusk @jeremymstamper @bneiluj @how_many_roads_ Yann, you work for a company where the core business model is being a literal cancer to society at large.

Facebook and Instagram’s products likely killed more kids than Lockheed or Raytheon.

Get off your high horse and consider quitting yourself.

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@Made_in_Afrika @xM4lk @Carnage4Life Counterpoint: they organised the diversity committee which oversaw inclusivity in the FAQ section of the product.

Isn’t that at least as valuable?

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@robfindlay Because why not build your own from scratch. What could it possible cost? 100+k and a few years of weekends?

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And another @CommunityNotes win exposing deception

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@vilinskyy @bezart @WeekendVisuals But tricky thing right. Impact isn’t as subjective. It’s pretty straightforward to measure.

X hours at Y/h invested into project A, outcome was reduction in costs/increase in sales of Z

Is X*Y<Z

Unfortunately many designers are liabilities, not assets.

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@robfindlay Always has been

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@adcock_brett Fast people go - it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Slow people - it's better to ask for permission and hope that it takes a while, than it is to do any work and worry it'll upset someone eventually maybe.

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@shilei Ngl compared to LKY ,4G is amateur hour reactionaries and career middle managers.

Every elite degree and qualification in the world with zero vision or courage.

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@shilei But the next iPhone/Galaxy will have a 15% faster processor and 50% more megapixels!!! Aren’t you excited??

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@PascalPixel Just keep sending the owner photos of horse dongs daily until they forfeit the domain to make the photos stop.

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@adeaoi Dunno man … natural selection/Darwin awards?

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@mistermeenr I once attended a fancy black-tie event, but instead of a tuxedo or gown, I showed up wearing a dinosaur costume and breakdanced my way through the evening. -gpt4

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@jjesschan Running 900 tests to find the perfect shade of orange for a button works for Amazon because that extra 0.001% bump in conversion, at their scale, is worth tens of millions of dollars.

At scale at which most businesses operate, it’s worth tens of cents.

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@ArjunMahadevan Can you please do another thread about who is the genius behind all the submediocre content that they’ve producing? 🤔

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@AA_Ashour @elonmusk “Because verification was most reliable through personal identification”

Dude, twitter employees were literally giving our verifications in exchange for large sums of money. The only difference was they were paying $10-15k instead of $8

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@_jacksmith Suggesting too generic and would be guessed by any rando spammer instantly?

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@daniel_eckler 20/19 There’s one here in Singapore that is a Japanese style tea garden.

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@wongmjane But you make the assumption that these people even know the difference between HK and China.

I mean half the time whenever I accidentally find myself talking to such people, they’re convinced that Singapore is in China.

No getting through to them, just gotta ignore.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️