Big Ideas: "A platform to track and reward behaviors like giving parents compliments, eating healthy, picking up trash or stopping bullies" - with Futurist Dean Grey
"Behavior has always been trackable. The question was whether the infrastructure existed to do it ethically"
Press Coverage
Medium / Authority Magazine - February 24, 2019
The Big Idea Was Simpler Than Anyone Expected
Authority Magazine runs an interview series called Big Ideas That Might Change The World In The Next Few Years. In February 2019, they chose Dean Grey.
The idea was this: a platform capable of tracking and rewarding the behaviors that actually matter. Giving parents compliments. Eating healthy. Picking up trash. Stopping bullies. Not vanity metrics - verified human actions.
That is what the Value Reinforcement System (VRS) was built to do. The interview documents where the thinking came from, how the architecture was developed, and why behavioral infrastructure - not content - is the missing layer in every community platform built to date.
Eight minutes. The full case, in Dean Grey's own words.
Read the full interview in Authority Magazine →
