Voices of eCommerce, Ep. 13 with Brian Amerige of Thoughtful

What if? What if we re-thought what “social” means, to rid ourselves of the dark elements and instead promote the enriching parts?

In this episode, we talk to Brian Amerige, CEO and co-founder of Thoughtful, and who takes us on a journey on rethinking social.  His app, Thoughtful (available at https://thoughtful.community/Brian) represents his effort to bring this vision to reality.
Specifically, we discuss:

• Why we need ideas to flourish as humans
• How current social platforms promote non-enriching content, leading to toxic environments.
• How Thoughtful promotes ideas through the consumption of interesting content.
• Why “Thoughtful time” creates a number for screen time you should be proud of. 
• The marketplace for new apps is still huge – especially for positive, human centric apps. 
• In Thoughtful, engagement with people is limited to the extent it can help engagement with ideas. 
• Why metrics at Thoughtful are used to inform decisions but not make decisions. 
• How the “judgement coefficient” helps match individual interests with other people with similar interests, and their recommendations,
• regardless of popularity of that content. 
• How you could use Thoughtful to improve your college experience
• Why students should focus on problems when thinking about their career.