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  1. Jun 2020
    1. dark pattern design will ensure the opt out — if there is one — will be near invisible; Greyscale text on a grey background is the usual choice.

      The often used method on promotional emails and/or advertising website.

    2. Friction is another key tool of this dark art: For example designs that require lots more clicks/taps and interactions if you want to opt out.

      The example for this is how Amazon makes it hard to make user close account https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M&t=23

    1. I was brought here from the discussion:

      'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness - Hacker News »Link«

    1. Good intro on Zettelkasten note management method.


      Further reference:

      The Zettelkasten Method - Lesswrong 2 »Link«. on how to create "physical" Zettelkasten notes.

    1. People are usually pretty willing to help when they are in a secure position. But when you start assuming a lot of risk to help someone, outright foolishness is harder to stomach.You might say when offering help saddles you with risk, it accelerates compassion fatigue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue)