An Apology to Our Listeners. Because Two Dots.
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Two Dots game director David Hohusen on what it's like to balance "caring about users' well-being" with "designing an addictive game." The brave man came back!
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| 0:00.0 | I feel slightly guilty that I ambushed you. |
| 0:04.3 | Yes. |
| 0:04.7 | Did I ambush you? |
| 0:05.8 | You did. |
| 0:08.6 | This is Note to Self, the tech show about being human. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm a new summer ody. |
| 0:14.1 | One year on, did we change how one technologist feels |
| 0:18.6 | about his responsibility to his users, to us? |
| 0:23.2 | But before we get to that, I just want |
| 0:25.1 | to read some names of listeners to whom I owe an apology. |
| 0:30.6 | Ken Cooper, Rebecca Daniels, Curtis Conkey, |
| 0:34.6 | Brendan and Jersey City, John Davis, Joseph Bassett's wife, |
| 0:39.2 | Danny Duelos Reyes, Laura Cath, Dave Muir, |
| 0:43.2 | Keeley Galgano, Nate Merrill, Laura Startesky. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm in a summer already mentioned a little game called |
| 0:50.3 | two dots that she was addicted to. |
| 0:52.5 | And following the same impulse that drives a four-year-old |
| 0:55.7 | to touch the hot iron anyway, I went head and down there. |
| 0:58.4 | Did it? |
| 0:59.4 | So many of you got sucked into the game two dots. |
| 1:04.0 | After I talked about it on an episode, |
| 1:06.2 | almost exactly one year ago. |
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