Tag Archives: Incentives

People are not to blame for bad privacy decisions

By Chad | Published: May 15, 2010
We are at a point in history where technology is forcing us to re-evaluate our understanding of privacy. However, too often the conversation looks like this, which was taken from the comments section of an article about Facebook: “If you really don’t want to share….DONT PUT IT ON THE NET!” I am not a technological [...]
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Incentives and the Path of Least Resistance

By Chad | Published: June 20, 2009
This is sort of a continuation of the previous post about designing to change behavior. I am not really arguing one side or the other here, rather I am searching for some insights about design. To that end I have chosen a few books to dive into this summer, among them the book Freakonomics. One [...]
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