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The Algo election: how 2024 revealed a fragmented reality

The algorithm has become the retina of the mind’s eye

Dec 8, 2024

An image ofGeorge Tooker’s, The Subway. In it, a woman in a red dress looks lost and scared in an endless, maze-like train station.

Dec 8, 2024

Outlook cloudy: Designing for uncertain times

How weather apps attempt to provide certainty-as-a-service despite uncertainty-as-a-reality

Dec 7, 2024

Outlook cloudy: Designing for uncertain times

Dec 7, 2024

Tech debt is eating the world

Web infrastructure begets inequality, especially for tech nonprofits

Mar 15, 2022

Tech debt is eating the world

Mar 15, 2022

Building ethics and equity into software

Wouldst thou like to live ethically?

Apr 10, 2021

Building ethics and equity into software

Apr 10, 2021

Against growth: Building a slower, more thoughtful internet

Unlearning growth-by-default like our lives depend on it

Apr 10, 2021

Against growth: Building a slower, more thoughtful internet

Apr 10, 2021

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Frameworks for measuring product inclusion and product equity

A few working frameworks for PMs, execs, small teams, and startups

Apr 21, 2021

A table entitled, “Representativeness.” On the left column are categories of users (Black, Indigenous, White, Queer, etc.). To the right are two columns: “Your product” and “Potential Market”

Apr 21, 2021

Modular manipulation: Towards radical user choice

Ways to defuse weapons of mass persuasion

Apr 10, 2021

Modular manipulation: Towards radical user choice

Apr 10, 2021

Inclusive data analysis: Find the needle and then the haystack

A case study on averages and margins

Apr 10, 2021

A chart entitled, “Daily conversations, distributed by length.” You then see a bar chart. The y-axis is “# of convos” and the x-axis is “length of convos in minutes.”

Apr 10, 2021

Community-driven growth and retention (“Let’s give em somethin to talk about”)

Low-cost community tactics for nonprofits and startups

Apr 10, 2021

Community-driven growth and retention (“Let’s give em somethin to talk about”)

Apr 10, 2021

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What product inclusion and Latinx Immigrants can teach WhatsApp

How a product inclusion framework can improve WhatsApp for all users

Apr 10, 2021

A gif of Joe Biden with quote: “we’ve moved the needle further and further to inclusion, not exclusion”

Apr 10, 2021

Michael Linares

Michael Linares

Product leader and writer. Currently: Head of Product @ NYT Cooking. Previously: Crisis Text Line, Lean In, Yale AIDS Memorial Project.

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