We should be paying more attention to effort per interaction.

Re:We should be paying more attention to effort per interact... by pinko on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @01:48PM (#2755663)

Lower effort per interaction is only a net win if the value of interactions remains constant and the number of interactions doesn't scale up to compensate for the decreased effort.

In short, my experience has been that as communication in general has gotten easier, the average individual communication has gotten more trivial, and the signal/noise ratio has worsened.

I'm not at all convinced it's a net win.

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Re:We should be paying more attention to effort per interact... by hammock on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @02:48PM (#2755936)

That's a hilariously antisocial response (no offense implied). I understand your signal/noise argument, and that seems to me a smaller, tactical issue. On net higher velocity of interaction is a benefit much like globalized trade is a benefit.

edit: here's an analogy closer to home. when a good, wealth-creating startup raises a second round of funds, diminishing marginal returns to capital means the average capital productivity might go down, but the total product (wealth created) tends to go up.

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