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Adam Mosseri's mental models

4 claims Adam Mosseri made fit 3 mental models. Most often: Value moves to what stays scarce, Incentives, Second-order thinking. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Incentives

Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.

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A purely chronological feed rewards whoever posts most, so publishers drown out the friends it was supposed to show you.

  1. Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram since 2018 So if you do a pure chronological feed, the incentive for everybody is to just post as much as possible uh because it will always be at the top of everyone who follows you's feed as soon as you post. The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com · 9 Jul 2026 · 0:38:53 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    So if you do a pure chronological feed, the incentive for everybody is to just post as much as possible uh because it will always be at the top of everyone who follows you's feed as soon as you post.

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Value moves to what stays scarce

When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.

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An abundance of synthetic content will make people seek out the person behind the content more, not less.

  1. Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram since 2018 but I think people are going to really seek out other points of view because Instagram was never just about the content. It was always about to a certain degree the person behind the content, the point of view, the reason they're sharing it, their perspective. And I think that's going to become more important, not less. The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com · 9 Jul 2026 · 0:43:07 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    but I think people are going to really seek out other points of view because Instagram was never just about the content. It was always about to a certain degree the person behind the content, the point of view, the reason they're sharing it, their perspective. And I think that's going to become more important, not less.

Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away.

  1. Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram since 2018 you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away. The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com · 9 Jul 2026 · 0:08:31 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.

Second-order thinking

Ask "and then what?": follow a decision past its first effect to the ones that come after.

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People who choose a chronological feed are happy in the moment and measurably less satisfied months later.

  1. Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram since 2018 the individual who made that choice might be happy at the moment, but when you just get pummeled with stuff you're less interested in over the course of months, we ask, we run surveys at massive scales, we just see people start to become less and less satisfied with Instagram. The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com · 9 Jul 2026 · 0:40:42 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    the individual who made that choice might be happy at the moment, but when you just get pummeled with stuff you're less interested in over the course of months, we ask, we run surveys at massive scales, we just see people start to become less and less satisfied with Instagram.