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Tristan Harris says, in his 2017 60 Minutes Interview, “There’s always this narrative that technology’s neutral. And it’s up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true.”
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
We charge our credit card for different purchases and then quickly forget about them. We borrow from what we intended to save. We don’t think about big bills when they’re not in our monthly budget. We move money between savings and checking and rainy-day funds just so we can do something “special” with them.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Just as Tristan Harris warned, in many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The Hooked Model
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Dopamine Addiction - Michael Karnjanaprakorn
mikekarnj.com
Apps and websites sprinkle intermittent variable rewards all over their products because it’s good for business.