Create with conscience: healthier tech for a digitally distracted world
summary
Explains concrete mechanisms and remedies: variable rewards and autoplay drive dopamine and engagement, YouTube recommendations influence 81% of users, infinite scroll and Wansink bottomless-bowl: +73% soup keep consumption endless, push notifications average 46/day and mouse‑out modals or confirm‑shaming increase clicks, multitasking shows striatum activation and long‑term gray‑matter loss. Offers fixes with real products and metrics: Slack notification prefs, Bumble snooze, Apple Focus modes and a downloadable Goal Signals metrics framework to measure user wellbeing.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:22Who’s in control?
- 3:03Evolving how we are creating and consuming technology
- 3:18Variable rewards
- 5:56Bottomless bowl tactics
- 8:24Manufactured scarcity (FOMO)
- 10:14Toxicity of social media on mental health
- 11:00Trigger Warning: next slide contains self-harm/violence content
- 13:07The hook model
- 16:19The myth of multi-tasking
- 18:30Social interactions and relationship building
- 19:46Creating with conscience?
- 24:32Closing
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