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How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind—from a Former Insider
One: ban surveillance capitalism, because people who are being hacked and deliberately hooked can’t focus. Two: introduce a four-day week, because people who are chronically exhausted can’t pay attention. Three: rebuild childhood around letting kids play freely—in their neighborhoods and at school—because
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Users are slowly waking up to the fact that free-to-use, infinite feeds are predatory.
Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis
Google & Facebook have similarly perfected this balance between harvesting data, content & attention from us in exchange for a little convenience, distribution & dopamine to keep us plugged in.