Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature
The other week I came across the concept of Fuben-Eki, which roughly translates as the “benefit of inconvenience”. Initially I thought it sounds like one of those ancient Japanese philosophies that has been tidied up for LinkedIn and eagerly scrolled down to the comments to see the ‘Engagement’ but it is apparently a relatively recent system-design concept. Hiroshi Kawakami described it as looking for benefits that can only be gained through inconvenience: value that sits outside the usual axes of efficiency and functionality.
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