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The Addiction Economy
"I realized last year that everything I care about, everything that matters the most to me -- my family, my career, my personal and spiritual development, all of my creative endeavors -- all of it is downstream of my ability to break free of my addiction to digital dope."
One of its most famous investors, Paul Graham, wrote: “Unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next forty years than it did in the last forty.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
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These apps and slick sites were not, as Bill Maher put it, gifts from “nerd gods building a better world.” They were, instead, designed to put slot machines in our pockets.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
I noted that we seem to have stumbled backward into a digital life we didn’t sign up for. As I’ll argue next, it’s probably more accurate to say that we were pushed into it by the high-end device companies and attention economy conglomerates who discovered there are vast fortunes to be made in a culture dominated by gadgets and apps.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
how tech companies encourage behavioral addiction: intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval.