Stolen Focus
Why You Can't Pay Attention -- and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari 2022 Aloha Lib 153.733 HARI Johann
wikipedia b1979 / Kings College Cambridge / plagiarism?
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
![/!\](/moin_static198/modernized/img/alert.png "/!\"){kind=small}
Edit conflict - other version:
- 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
Edit conflict - your version:
- 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
End of edit conflict
- p