Tag: marketing

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Marketing isn’t a Dark Pattern. But it can be.

I’m frustrated. I’ve finally received familial approval to cut the cord—something I’ve wanted to do for years.  But I can’t make it happen.

With the exception of a few sporting events here and there, we haven’t actually watched television live or recorded on our aging TiVo in years. We’re a Roku and Plex household. In the back of our minds we’d kept cable service for when guests come and want to watch their favorite channels. That also hasn’t happened in years.  It’s time to stop paying for something we don’t use.

In 2018, one would think that this is a

Creating Urgency

The Urgent Trap

The concept of the playoff game makes sense, in a way.  You have a league that’s far too big for every team to play each other on equal footing over the course of a season, so you take the top teams from what we call a regular season and have them play a series of games that decide who the top team is overall.

Not all sports force this convention though.  Most notably, in soccer, the English Premiere League (EPL) treats the entire season as a tournament of the 20 best teams with each team playing every other team once

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