The enigma of Nir Eyal continues to evolve and turn in on itself. First he writes the manual for how to write addictive apps. Then he writes a book seemingly at

The enigma of Nir Eyal continues to evolve and turn in on itself. First he writes the manual for how to write addictive apps. Then he writes a book seemingly atoning for his previous work hijacking human psychology. And now it turns out he's actually trying to say "It's not Facebook's fault, it's your fault. If you can't stop using an app then it's a failure on your end". When he knows full well that the playing field is not even, and he was one of the guys who helped them take the upper hand. The comparison to Reefer Madness is just silly. Pot is not a product designed by engineers to encourage the greatest time spent smoking pot as possible. The most valuable companies on Wall Street in the 50s were not in the marijuana business. In 2019, the most valuable companies most definitely are in the attention business. Parents in the 50s were not putting joints in the hands of two year olds for hours a day. Parents in 2019 are doing exactly that with ipads and youtube.