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Alex Heath
Alex Heath
The CEO of TikTok knows he has a trust problem.

That was the message from Shou Chew, who runs TikTok for its Chinese parent company ByteDance, at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco I’m attending.

During a rare public conversation today with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Chew said he’s focused on building “technical solutions” to concerns like what user data TikTok does or doesn’t share with China:

We realize that we are a new and young company. The only way that we’re going to build trust in this country and all over the world is to be very consistent with our actions over a long period of time.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
It’s spooky season!

What is the difference between spooky versus scary, and how do you design that experience? I loved this essay, which uses examples from the set of Hocus Pocus and haunted houses, to think a little more about the difference:

Unsurprisingly, McHale told me that he finds comfort in spookiness, for the way it lets us think about life and death at the same time. It allows us to play with those ideas, as Clasen would say. “If it goes too far, you’re confronted with things you don’t want to deal with, but if it’s just enough, it’s a comfort,” McHale said. “If it’s lightly spooky, it’s almost a whimsical reminder of what life is about.”

Dirt: On Spookiness

[dirt.substack.com]

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