hacking human connection
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Relationships are awesome.
Relationships Drive….
Happiness Business
Family
Intimacy
Economic Growth
Science
Art
Music
Innovation Politics
Social Change
Education
Wellness
these things
How do we describe relationships?
How do we describe relationships?
How do we describe relationships?
Relationships are
COMPLICATED
Complex systems have
striking structural similarities.
Can we use…
these underlying structures
these complex systems?
Optimization Problems Show up everywhere.
The Evolutionary Algorithm
Exploration
Differentiation Selection
Always shows up to solve them.
How should we spend time together?
A relationship as one big optimization problem:
Explore ways
of spending
time.
Express
emotion &
preference.
Make plans
and keep
them.
Measures all types of relationships.
Gives insight into how relationships evolve.
Hints at design criteria.
How do we describe relationships?
Be a Botanist
Exploration
Differentiation Selection
Collect beautiful samples.
Design For Connection
What contexts enable relationships to optimize?
5 Tips for Hacking Human Connection
1. Think in Relationships
2. Look for Complexity
3. Exploration, Differentiation, Selection
4. Be a Botanist
5. Design for Connection