gjoe 's review for:

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter

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Found the tone to be kind of irritating in a way that's hard to describe -- felt sort of like if someone transcribed a marketing consultant's TED talk and asked ChatGPT to change the tone to sound more like a self-help book. Overall, though, I think it does a good job of pointing out predatory architectures and the psychology behind why we are all Hooked On Phones.

Farmville and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.