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 .p65 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Czeisler | Charles Czeisler ]]
 .p66 sleep deprivation stretched normal half-second responses to five seconds
 .p73 [[ https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/faculty/roxanne-prichard/ | Roxanne Prichard ]] 5 mg melatonin blows out [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin_receptor | sleep receptors ]] ??? citation needed, nothing obvious in literature

 .p80 57% of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year
 .p82 compared to books, screens less understandable and remembered "screen inferiority"
 .p84 the "message"? The world can be understood in 280 characters
 .p85 Twitter least useful ... your thinking will rapidly degrede
 .p94 rp304 Mlodinow [[ https://www.amazon.com/Elastic-Flexible-Thinking-Time-Change/dp/1101870923/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 | Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World 2018 ]]
 .p96 [[ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare/ | Poincaré ]] solution for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automorphic_function | Automorphic Functions ]] while stepping onto a bus
 .p106 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris | Tristan Harris ]] The Social Dilemma
 .p119 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin | Aza Raskin ]]
 .p119 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_scrolling | infinite scroll ]]
 .p121 social media makes people unempathetic, angry, and hostile
 .p127 rp307 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=1&cn=4056570 | Age of Surveillance Capitalism ]]
 .p133 Sites "frack" you, learn your triggers and target your attention
 .p136 !YouTube recommended Alex Jones Infowars 15 billion times
 .p140 rage-driven algorithms of social media and Youtube damages attention and focus
 .p148 [[ https://www.nirandfar.com/ | Nir Ayal ]] blog post: ''Want to Hook Your Users? Drive Them Crazy''
 .p150 [[ https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/faculty/roxanne-prichard/ | Ronald Purser ]]
 .p150 [[ https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/faculty/roxanne-prichard/ | Lauren Berlant ]] [[ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intersections/202106/kind-and-cruel-optimism-lauren-berlant-s-penetrating-analyses | cruel optimism ]]
 .p151 Stress is imposed on you
 .p153 The average weight gain for an adult between 1960 and 2002 was 24 pounds
 .p155 environment designed to invade and raid our focus
 .p156 "just ban surveillance capitalism"
 .p162 [[ https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11211 | Mark Ledwich ]] says !YouTube is slightly ''deradicalizing''
  . unless you log in so it can track you says Nir
 .p164 Common Ground, internal unit at Facebook, 64% join extremist groups because Facebook recommended them
 .p165 dismissed by Facebook
 .p166 Hari, war on drugs: [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Chasing+the+Scream | Chasing the Scream ]]
 .p166 Swiss grandmother Lydia Hari
 .p168 Hari gay, was crime, now OK
 .p170 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier | Jaron Lanier ]] stopped warning about dystopias, which inspired designers to make them
 .p173 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayview,_Contra_Costa_County,_California | Bayview ]] near SF, violence and stress
 .p176 Children with 4+ types of trauma 32.6 times more likely to have attention or behavior problem diagnoses
 .p181 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income | Universal basic income ]]
 .p197 [[ https://www.dalepinnock.com/ | Dale Pinnock ]] nutritionist
 .p200 kids not fed preservatives and dyes, 50% attentiveness improvement
 .p202 [[ https://www.ohsu.edu/people/joel-t-nigg-phd | Joel T. Nigg OHSU ]], ADHD linked to food
 .p205 living near major road, 15% more likely to develop dementia
 .p205 [[ https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12940-020-0565-4.pdf | Yuchi et al ]]
 .p206 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius | Vitruvius ]] [[ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/504874 | lead pipe poisoning ]]
 .p208 1925 Dr. [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton | Alice Hamilton ]] opposed leaded gasoline
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. | Thomas Midgley ]] pushed leaded gasoline, later diagnosed with lead poisoning
 .p221 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Timimi | Dr. Sami Timimi ]] opposed medicalization of ADHD
 .p222 people think psychiatrists are pill dispensers
 .p223 Moved "problem child" away from irrational teacher
 .p224 struggle to focus labelled ADHD, instead discover underlying problem by listening to child
 .p224 [[ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JDfnUr0AAAAJ&hl=en | Alan Sroufe ]]
 .p225 ADHD caused by chaotic environment
 .p226 reaction to circumstances
 .p227 Author's friends use stimulants to concentrate on projects
 .p228 ADHD stimulant [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextroamphetamine | dextroamphetamine ]] reduces meth addict cravings
 .p228 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall | Adderall ]] same effect
 .p231 rp325 [[ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/205525 | 1999 ADHD 14 month clinical trial ]]
 .p233 identical twins treated alike, similar behavior (like ADHD) results
 .p234 flawed twin studies aside, no individual gene is has large causal role
 .p235 non-twin studies show 20% to 30% of ADHD relates to genes
 .p235 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Nigg | Joel Nigg ]] at OHSU, Child and Adolescent Psychology
 .p235 [[ https://safersociety.org/alan-sroufe-ph-d/ | Alan Sroufe ]] genes (ie ADHD) switch by environmental input
 .p239 37% of elementary schools have no form of recess, most time spent drilling for tests
 .p240 unaccompanied 9yo children reported as parental negligence to police
 .p242 children 3 times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a stranger
 .p244 children learn their most important skills when they play
 .p245 [[ https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5297 | Barbara Sarnecka ]] UC Irvine, childhood is exploring, not mapped
 .p246 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt | Jonathan Haidt ]] play deprivation -> rise in child anxiety
 .p248 [[ https://letgrow.org/child-kidnapping-risk/ | 460,000 children missing ]] ''for more than 1 hour'', [[ https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/250089.pdf | 105 were actual kidnappings, all but 8 made it home safe ]]
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Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention -- and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari 2022 Aloha Lib 153.733 HARI Johann


  • p50 Mihaly Csikszentmihali (cheek-sent-he-high-ee) hiding from bombs in butcher shop, with collaborator corpses on meat hooks

  • p52 goes to study psychology, shocked by dominance of B. F. Skinner

  • p57 Positive psychology focus on what makes life worth living

  • p65 Charles Czeisler

  • p66 sleep deprivation stretched normal half-second responses to five seconds
  • p73 Roxanne Prichard 5 mg melatonin blows out sleep receptors ??? citation needed, nothing obvious in literature

  • p80 57% of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year
  • p82 compared to books, screens less understandable and remembered "screen inferiority"
  • p84 the "message"? The world can be understood in 280 characters
  • p85 Twitter least useful ... your thinking will rapidly degrede
  • p94 rp304 Mlodinow Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World 2018

  • p96 Poincaré solution for Automorphic Functions while stepping onto a bus

  • p106 Tristan Harris The Social Dilemma

  • p119 Aza Raskin

  • p119 infinite scroll

  • p121 social media makes people unempathetic, angry, and hostile
  • p127 rp307 Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  • p133 Sites "frack" you, learn your triggers and target your attention
  • p136 YouTube recommended Alex Jones Infowars 15 billion times

  • p140 rage-driven algorithms of social media and Youtube damages attention and focus
  • p148 Nir Ayal blog post: Want to Hook Your Users? Drive Them Crazy

  • p150 Ronald Purser

  • p150 Lauren Berlant cruel optimism

  • p151 Stress is imposed on you
  • p153 The average weight gain for an adult between 1960 and 2002 was 24 pounds
  • p155 environment designed to invade and raid our focus
  • p156 "just ban surveillance capitalism"
  • p162 Mark Ledwich says YouTube is slightly deradicalizing

    • unless you log in so it can track you says Nir
  • p164 Common Ground, internal unit at Facebook, 64% join extremist groups because Facebook recommended them
  • p165 dismissed by Facebook
  • p166 Hari, war on drugs: Chasing the Scream

  • p166 Swiss grandmother Lydia Hari
  • p168 Hari gay, was crime, now OK
  • p170 Jaron Lanier stopped warning about dystopias, which inspired designers to make them

  • p173 Bayview near SF, violence and stress

  • p176 Children with 4+ types of trauma 32.6 times more likely to have attention or behavior problem diagnoses
  • p181 Universal basic income

  • p197 Dale Pinnock nutritionist

  • p200 kids not fed preservatives and dyes, 50% attentiveness improvement
  • p202 Joel T. Nigg OHSU, ADHD linked to food

  • p205 living near major road, 15% more likely to develop dementia
  • p205 Yuchi et al

  • p206 Vitruvius lead pipe poisoning

  • p208 1925 Dr. Alice Hamilton opposed leaded gasoline

    • Thomas Midgley pushed leaded gasoline, later diagnosed with lead poisoning

  • p221 Dr. Sami Timimi opposed medicalization of ADHD

  • p222 people think psychiatrists are pill dispensers
  • p223 Moved "problem child" away from irrational teacher
  • p224 struggle to focus labelled ADHD, instead discover underlying problem by listening to child
  • p224 Alan Sroufe

  • p225 ADHD caused by chaotic environment
  • p226 reaction to circumstances
  • p227 Author's friends use stimulants to concentrate on projects
  • p228 ADHD stimulant dextroamphetamine reduces meth addict cravings

  • p228 Adderall same effect

  • p231 rp325 1999 ADHD 14 month clinical trial

  • p233 identical twins treated alike, similar behavior (like ADHD) results
  • p234 flawed twin studies aside, no individual gene is has large causal role
  • p235 non-twin studies show 20% to 30% of ADHD relates to genes
  • p235 Joel Nigg at OHSU, Child and Adolescent Psychology

  • p235 Alan Sroufe genes (ie ADHD) switch by environmental input

  • p239 37% of elementary schools have no form of recess, most time spent drilling for tests
  • p240 unaccompanied 9yo children reported as parental negligence to police
  • p242 children 3 times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a stranger
  • p244 children learn their most important skills when they play
  • p245 Barbara Sarnecka UC Irvine, childhood is exploring, not mapped

  • p246 Jonathan Haidt play deprivation -> rise in child anxiety

  • p248 460,000 children missing for more than 1 hour, 105 were actual kidnappings, all but 8 made it home safe

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