Values, Social Networks, and The Wisdom Economy with Joe Edelman

Описание: Joe Edelman (@edelwax), philosopher, social scientist, designer, and founder of Human Systems, joins Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

Why the internet didn’t achieve its promise of connecting people on a deeper level.

Why we’ve become very good at shopping and networking around goals and preferences but not around values, and how this manifests in the differences between Couchsurfing and Airbnb.

Why he says that philosophers and micro-economists have the best ability to figure out how people make choices, and why their approach is better than that of psychology or neuroscience.

How a “meaning economy” or “wisdom economy” could work.

His explanation for what values mean to him, and how his have changed over time.

How he would change Twitter, Facebook, and Tinder, if he was in charge of product at those companies.

Why people who break down all their decisions in complicated spreadsheets are fooling themselves into thinking they’ve made a better decision.

How metrics and values interact, and how to think about metrics in your personal life.

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