Why is nobody talking about how many situations will arise where one person sends a voice message with a certain tone only to be completely misrepresented by someone using this context-killing feature?
I am talking about broad foundational results. Of course stuff like "we asked two teams of people to tug on a rope, the first had a prime number of members and had been told their pet dog died last night whereas the other followed a keto diet" don't really matter in the real world. If an analysis on 6 billion phone interactions tells us people don't meaningfully deal with more than 150 other humans then it's something you should actually take into consideration when designing social stuff
I always find it worrying how companies and institutions completely disregard advances in psychological findings. How can anyone in good faith develop a social network after knowing this concrete reality of human connection capacity? How can anyone in good faith defend massive amounts of wealth when phenomena related to hedonic adaptation clearly exist? How can anyone in good faith make their company public after more than 100 years of seeing shareholders take control of the original vision guided by a poor understanding of what a stock's value means (clear example of a metric turned target)?
Humans have always been the same, both in their individual and group form, and good leaders from 4000 years ago would fare just as well today if given the right context. Ignoring the history of human behavior means actively disregarding the most powerful tool to understand what stuff works for us and what doesn't. We are forgetting that the vast majority of our activities involves other humans, and 100% of what we do involves ourselves. When creating technology used by groups of people or when making up policies we should be more careful about shaping it from a behavioral point of view rather than a purely technical one. If Facebook was designed from a more human perspective and the like button functioned 38% of the times we would be in a much better state than the like button being formally proven to always work and social interactions working 38% of the time