Tristan Harris

Technology-design ethicist Tristan Harris explains how Facebook and other social-media platforms that use algorithms to keep users engaged endanger society by eroding our shared sense ...

Ask yourself, is there a gap between your values and your metrics? Do your metrics for success undermine or support your most altruistic and aspirational goals?

The largest tech firms through a single screen influence billions of people each day. It is an enormous responsibility. As entrepreneurs, technologists, coders, creators, we must keep asking, are we ...

Technologies presents as accessories or tools. In reality, technologies are sophisticated persuasion machines. As builders and users, we must choose to see technology as it is.

Pay attention to incentives. What is the actual thing that you are beholden to? Everything else is an aspirational myth. The metrics you are beholden to dictate every element of ...

We have pointed AI at the human mind. It’s goal: capture our attention.

You can’t beat AI. Period. You need to refocus AI so that you work together. You need to reprogram AI with goals that replenish rather than extract.

Acknowledging the impracticality of telling tech companies to drop attention-grabbing features that their bottom lines depend on, design ethicist Tristan Harris recommends consumers turn to ...

Technology must be designed to enhance people’s lives, not just dazzle them. Your startup’s stated mission and bottom-line concerns should be one and the same.

Steven Garrity and Clara Shih, founders of Hearsay Labs, talk about how they both knew they wanted to start a company - and with each ...

Kimber Lockhart, cofounder of Increo Solutions, Inc. with Jeff Seibert, believes that starting her company was part of the general process of solving a business ...

To bootstrap means to use revenue or personal savings to run your operations, explains Josh Reeves, founder of unwrapped inc. Rather than seeking out venture ...

A VC firm would provide a bit more name recognition," says Jeff Seibert, founder of Increo Solutions, Inc. Just out of college, he believes it ...

What are the biggest obstacles and assets for young entrepreneurs? Unwrapped, inc. founder Josh Reeves answers that the biggest obstacle it not knowing how to ...

Having an engineering degree, says Jeff Seibert, founder of Increo Solutions, Inc., allows you to prototype your own idea. "You don't have to choose" between ...

Target your customer and their needs, says Tristan Harris, founder of Apture. His company recently hired a community manager to target ideal bloggers to beta ...