companies don’t [currently] have the right incentive to change.”

“How does a magician do their work? It works because they don’t have to know your strengths—they just have to know your weaknesses.

Second: what matters is whether people immediately like these edited and carefully selected highlights that you spend your life crafting.

Facebook?

As human beings get older, they can focus less, and they become convinced that this is a problem with the world and with the next generation, rather than with their own failing minds.

In a society dominated by the values of consumer capitalism, “sleep is a big problem,” he told me. “If you’re asleep, you’re not spending money, so you’re not consuming anything. You’re not producing any products.”

If enough people are spending enough of their time being angered, that starts to change the culture.

“surveillance capitalism.”

You can see clearly how this is cruel. You tell somebody there’s a solution to their problem—just think differently about your stress and you’ll be fine!—and then leave them in a waking nightmare.