Digital Minimalism

: Thoreau, Walden, 5.
CHAPTER 1: A LOPSIDED ARMS RACE
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Presentation (HD),” YouTube video, 51:18, recorded January 9, 2007,
posted by Jonathan Turetta, May 13, 2013,
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: Andy Grignon, phone interview by
the author, September 7, 2017.
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: Tristan Harris, interview with Anderson
Cooper, 60 Minutes, 
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/brain-hacking
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: Bianca Bosker, “The Binge Breaker,” Atlantic,
November 2016,
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-binge-
breaker/501122
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: This quote comes from an earlier version
of the website for Time Well Spent. The organization has since been
rebranded as the Center for Humane Technology, and has a new website
and new copy: 
http://humanetech.com
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Alter, phone interview by the author, August 23, 2017.
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: Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise
of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (Penguin
Press, 2017), 128.
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minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3
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: Mike Allen, “Sean
Parker Unloads on Facebook: “God Only Knows What It’s Doing to Our
Children’s Brains,” Axios, November 9, 2016, 
https://www.axios.com/sean-
parker-unloads-on-facebook-2508036343.html
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: Victor Luckerson, “The Rise
of the Like Economy,” The Ringer, February 15, 2017,

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took-over-the-internet-ebe778be2459
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