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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
“surveillance capitalism.”
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
On average, we will stare at something negative and outrageous for a lot longer than we will stare at something positive and calm.
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Parker C added 9mo ago
If we are lost in lies, and constantly riled up to be angry with our fellow citizens, this sets off a chain reaction. It means we can’t understand what is really going
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
Facebook doesn’t release to the public—the company’s scientists reached a definite conclusion. They wrote: “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,”
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
They seemed to be unable to pull themselves away from their devices, flicking through and through and through,
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
wants us to understand that this design is not inevitable.
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
You can see clearly how this is cruel. You tell somebody there’s a solution to their problem—just think differently about your stress and you’ll be fine!—and then leave them in a waking nightmare.
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
He argues that to do that, we primarily have to look inward—to the reasons why we want to use them compulsively in the first place.
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago
All of us have “internal triggers”—moments in our lives that push us to give in to bad habits.
from Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Parker C added 9mo ago