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comment by blackbootz
blackbootz  ·  1881 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

    They're literally designed with the intention of trying to override our self control.

This for me has been the issue. In the main, I'm pretty intentional about my attention. But at the margins, I keep creeping toward smartphone usage. I believe it's because the phone and its contents are just so crazily well-designed. I forgot who said it, but our generation's best brains are being hired in droves by FAANG to get us to spend 10 more minutes a day on their products. They're well past the point of digging into what casinos have been doing to override our self-control.