Is Big Tech addictive? A debate with Nir Eyal.
“How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?” That’s the opening line of the description for Nir Eyal’s best-selling 2014 book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Hooked became a staple in Silicon Valley circles — it was even recommended to me when I started Vox — and Eyal became a tech celebrity. So I was interested to see him releasing a second book that seemed a...