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Is Silicon Valley Leading Us Into The Robot Apocalypse? – Love Your Work, Episode 21 w/ Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. So he is really manufacturing the drug of digital distraction. Fortunately, he’s also concerned about the implications, so he agreed to have a discussion with me about it on the podcast.
In this discussion, we cover our views on the potential effects of distraction. Is it making people less creative? Is it as addictive and harmful as smoking? Do we have the agency to free ourselves from technology? And, of course, is it making us vulnerable to a potential robot apocalypse?
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Show Notes
- Nir’s Twitter
- Nir’s blog
- Nir’s book
- The Creativity Crisis Study
- John Kounios (Neuroscientist studying insight) interview
- Pavlok
- News Feed Eradicator for Facebook Chrome Extension
- Freedom
- Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- Happiness Hack: This One Ritual Made Me Much Happier (Nir’s article on his “kibbutz”)
- Why People Check Their Tech at the Wrong Times (and the Simple Trick to Stop It)
- Article projecting that Facebook would make more money by charging $1.50/month