Distracting & Addictive Tech

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Episodes about how technology can be distracting and addictive, and what to do about it.


  • 1

    You 2.0: Deep Work

    Hidden Brain

    32:17 | Aug 27th, 2019

    7 recommendations

    When your phone buzzes or a notification pops up your screen, do you stop what you're doing to look and respond? That's what many of us are doing. Even though we think we should be less distracted by ...Show More

    mm recommended:

    Terrific episode on being able to focus, and how the most creative people we know are creative because they give themselves structured time and boundaries to be creative.

  • 2

    Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    1:19:13 | Aug 1st, 2019

    3 recommendations

    “How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?” That’s the opening line of the description for Nir Eyal’s bestselling 2014 book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Hooked...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This interview was something else. Never heard Ezra Klein start an interview saying he was disappointed in a guest’s arguments and lack of framework of the world for the topic at hand. Yikes...

  • 3

    S1E10: Infinite Scroll

    Slate Technology

    38:31 | Nov 7th, 2018

    2 recommendations

    The Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus book?” “I don’t have time!”) and needed a better way to organize it. Thus came the invention of tables...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This was so good. Must listen for anyone who designs software. Goes through history of indexes in books to infinite scroll in apps, endless Slack messages and mobile notifications. Also touches on inn...Show More

  • 4

    You probably can’t stop checking your phone for another news article, another video, another chart to help you make sense of what’s happening. And there’s a (relatively) new word for it: ‘Doomscrollin...Show More

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    I can 💯 relate to doomscrolling. Glad to have vocabulary to describe the dread now.

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