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David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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
We are living, she has come to believe, in a culture where people are not “getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings,” and that is why we can’t put down our smartphones, or bear to log off.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Yale professor Lauri Santos’s course “Psychology and the Good Life,”
Scott Galloway • Post Corona
Like a murder in Clue, the death of social connections in America had any number of suspects. But in the end, I believe the likeliest culprit is obvious. It was Mr. Farnsworth, in the living room, with the tube.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
The ideas that tech calls thinking were developed and refined in the making of money.