John Pettus

Great conversation with Scott Orn. Talked a little tech, a little startup life, and a lot about the state of civic discourse online. Thanks for the great opportunity Scott!

Hi everyone! I'm John, the founder and designer of Fiskkit. Fiskkit was designed from the ground up to build a better discussion online - one that favors facts, logic and civility. (I know. That the opposite of today.) We do that by turning Discussion into Data so we can Do Something. Fiskkit's different because of it's mechanics - sentence level commenting focuses the conversation, and a...

I'm a huge proponent of this idea! People need learn about the downstream consequences of their decisions!

Beautiful design, and I like that it leads to action. I'm not sure it's all accurate though. Some of it is, for sure. But the site gives us our best score for Mobile... when we haven't done our responsiveness fixes and our site is completely un-usable on mobile (for another couple weeks). I love this idea, and will be sending it to some friends. But feel free to look at our case as a way to...