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Outrage Addiction: The Slot Machine in Your Pocket

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They’re not “informing” you. They’re conditioning you. Open your phone. Scroll. Feel your blood pressure rise like it’s doing cardio. That’s not news. That’s training. 1) The feed is a casino, and you’re the customer and the product Slot machines don’t pay you to be happy. They pay you to keep pulling. The feed works … Read more

Algorithm Parenting: How Phones Raise Adults Now

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The smartphone isn’t just a device anymore. It’s a pacifier, a referee, a weapon, a badge
 and a shield. We used to say, (and still do) “Kids are being raised by screens.” Now it’s adults too. Look around. Traffic stops.Protests.Arguments in stores.Family drama at the dinner table. (see what happened when I asked my grandson … Read more

Attention Is Currency—And You’re Getting Robbed

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If you don’t control your attention, someone else will—and they’ll spend it on garbage. People track money better than they track attention. They’ll watch a bank account like a hawk
then hand their focus to strangers for free all day long. That’s backwards. Because attention is the wallet that buys your life. What you pay attention … Read more