Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2021-08-26
Alex Kantrowitz & Nir Eyal: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast
Are We Actually Addicted To Our Phones? — With Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a spirited debate over whether we're actually addicted to our phones, the ethics of app developers who use tricks to keep us coming back, and what to do about it.
Alex Kantrowitz discussed Hooked by Nir Eyal and Indistractable by Nir Eyal.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hooked
Discussed“I'll just quote from you from one of your talks that you gave on Hooked, which was the book about how products can get people coming back, can hook them before you are indistractable.”
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Indistractable
Discussed“The first book, Hooked, is all about teaching product people how to hook us on their products. And the second book is teaching us how to unhook ourselves”
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Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Hooked
“He's the author of Hooked and Indistractable, two best-selling books that dig into all the ways we get attached to apps and our phones and what to do about it.”
Passing Indistractable
“He's the author of Hooked and Indistractable, two best-selling books that dig into all the ways we get attached to apps and our phones and what to do about it.”
Passing Hooked
“You've written these two books, Hooked and Indistractable. It's interesting because we talk about tech all the time.”
Passing Indistractable
“You've written these two books, Hooked and Indistractable. It's interesting because we talk about tech all the time.”
Plugged Indistractable
“Absolutely. I wrote a whole book about how to become indistractable because I think distraction is a big problem.”
Plugged Indistractable
“I sat down with him for three hours and wanted to give them a path out of, hey, look, you know, look, I spent five years writing this book on how to become indistractable.”
Plugged Indistractable
“That's why I wrote indistractable is because I was very frustrated with the tech critic perspective of, you know, just stop using the technology.”
Passing Hooked
“We're having a good time, uh, segment with Nir Eyal, the author of hooked and indistractable.”
Passing Indistractable
“We're having a good time, uh, segment with Nir Eyal, the author of hooked and indistractable.”
Plugged Indistractable
“And so it starts by, by looking at, uh, these, these four key strategies that I spent five years researching into why we get distracted.”
Plugged Indistractable
“And then finally, the last step is to prevent distraction with pacts where we make some kind of pre-commitment as a firewall against distraction. So it's really about these four techniques that anyone can use to become indistractable.”