The following newsletter is syndicated from a 2022 BigThink.com article we wrote inspired by The New York Times acquisition of Wordle. In April it was revealed subscribers to The New York Times played its selection of games more than they read its editorial content - in 2022 it acquired Wordle - leading people to joke it
Interesting commentary on the human proclivity towards alarmism and, even better, you didn't over-generalize to "see! everything that we think is harmful will eventuality be proven harmless!"
I wonder if without the pandemic and Wordle becoming such a thing this would have happened. Gotta give NYTs credit for unpacking the Wordle formula with follow-ups like Connections
Interesting commentary on the human proclivity towards alarmism and, even better, you didn't over-generalize to "see! everything that we think is harmful will eventuality be proven harmless!"
I wonder if without the pandemic and Wordle becoming such a thing this would have happened. Gotta give NYTs credit for unpacking the Wordle formula with follow-ups like Connections