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Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Tristan Harris • How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind—from a Former Insider
Social media is not successful because it goes against our instincts and desires. It's successful because it gives us what we want. As a machine for harvesting atten-tion, its productivity is unmatched. As a machine for bending the will, it is a triumph of efficiency. In engineering what we pay attention to, it also engineers much else about us—how
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growthpathlabs.comAfter a mind-opening experience at Burning Man, Harris, in a move straight out of a Cameron Crowe screenplay, wrote a 144-slide manifesto titled “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention.” Harris sent the manifesto to a small group of friends at Google.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism
Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users’ daily routines and emotions.
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Ardoline, M. J., & Lenzo, E. (2025). The cognitive and moral harms of platform decay. Ethics and Information Technology, 27(3), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09846-1
Ardoline and Lenzo expand Cory Doctorow’s concept of “enshittification,” reframing it as platform decay. They argue that platform decay is not merely an issue of
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