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The Addiction Economy
but it has one key driving principle that is consistent. It shows you things that will keep you looking at your screen. That’s it.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Just because you design these products, it doesn’t mean you are more insulated than anyone else from becoming hooked on them.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Dopamine Labs, later called Boundless, provided a behavioral change API. The promise was that almost any app could benefit from gamification and the introduction of variable reward schedules. The goal of the company was to make apps more addictive and hook users.
Mario Gabriele • Scarcity as an API
The massive behavioral conditioning we’ve all been undergoing since the advent of ubiquitous electronic communications technology has changed us radically. But this dramatic, if not epochal, change is underappreciated. It’s underappreciated because we’re living in it as it happens, like frogs in cold water that slowly gets heated up without the fro
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