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Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Sometimes it can feel like the online spaces you spend time in are working against you, pushing you toward things that their owners value instead of what you value—and harnessing your energy to fuel the very things you hate. Like me, you probably know the feeling of spending too much time gorging on digital junk food, wasting precious moments of yo... See more

Chris Best • An Algorithm for Quality

If all you ever see of your ideological opponents online is their very worst behavior, you’re liable to assume that even family members who differ from you politically must be similarly, irredeemably bad, making relationships with them hard to maintain. So it’s not simply that our devices distract us from more important matters. It’s that they chan

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Opportunistic bad actors — anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers,conspiracy theorists, misogynists, racists, xenophobes, trolls, partisan extremists, scammers, and pedophiles — have taken advantage. Facebook and YouTube continually tweak their algorithms, use machine learning to detect spam and abuse, and spend billions of dollars hiring tens of thousands of... See more

Sriram Krishnan • How to Save the Internet

Who is your product’s user?

Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

On Heuristics and Perception

Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“The reason we have to be so careful about the way that we design technology,” he said, is that “they squeeze, they squish, the entire world down into that medium—and out the other end comes a different world.”

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

At the moment false claims spread on social media far faster than the truth, because of the algorithms that spread outraging material faster and farther.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

If we continue to pretend that human nature is an unknowable x, then we will continue to build technology for an unknowable creature and be surprised when we find misery in our midst. We will build things like the $12 billion porn industry—now fueled almost entirely by technology—without asking the most basic questions about what that industry is d... See more