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		spenjuly 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Engineered Addictions Going to recommend "Addiction by Design" here. Superb book about the addiction design dynamics in the gambling industry and very reminiscent of what we see in the smartphone/internet universe today. Shout out to the forgotten HN user who recommended it originally, one of the best and most salient books I've read in years.

charliebwrites 10 days ago [–]

Also Nir Eyal’s Hooked, which used to be standard reading at tech startups in the “Growth Hacking” era

NickC25 10 days ago | [–]

His followup book, Indistractable, is also quite good.

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