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"Rebuilding Society on Meaning: Practical Techniques to Align Markets, Recommenders, Social Networks, and Organizations with Meaning and Togetherness" Tweet summary: https://twitter.com/edelwax/status/1615448405744189440 00:00 【Introduction】 04:50 【Table of Contents】 06:40 【Chapter 1, The Pattern】...

"Rebuilding Society on Meaning: Practical Techniques to Align Markets, Recommenders, Social Networks, and Organizations with Meaning and Togetherness"

Tweet summary: https://twitter.com/edelwax/status/1615448405744189440

00:00 【Introduction】
04:50 【Table of Contents】
06:40 【Chapter 1, The Pattern】 Why scale is so often destructive.
26:15 【Chapter 2, Measuring Meaning】 A definition of “meaningful living” precise enough to create surveys, metrics, aligned ML models, etc.
42:22 【Chapter 3, Making Meaning】 A design “toolkit” to make things “meaningful on purpose” and to keep them that way.
54:05 【Chapter 4, Meaning at Scale】 On problems with meaning and the social fabric that emerge at large scales—such as with global social networks, operating systems, app stores, and markets.
1:13:18 【Conclusion】
1:23:12 【Credits】

— transcript & links: https://textbook.sfsd.io/overview
— movement: https://www.rebuildingmeaning.org

Cite as:
Edelman, Joe, “Rebuilding Society on Meaning” in Values-Based Social Design, https://textbook.sfsd.io, Berlin (2023)

The song is: “Harry Potter” by Guante and Big Cats. Used with permission. https://truruts.bandcamp.com/ https://guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/

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Design friends: I highly recommend @edelwax's new talk! [link] Years ago, Joe wrote a wonderful talk on the challenges of metrics called "Is anything worth maximizing?" This is the followup, presenting a design approach intended to escape HCD's goal orientation.