A lot of people don't actually know their own goals. As a persuasive technologist, you can colonize the goals of the human social primates sitting in front of you. We really need to have better methods of preserving privacy or sanitizing data so that we can break this kind of asymmetry of power.
Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, started measuring the attention spans of office workers with scientific precision. What she has discovered is not simply an explosion of disruptive communications, but a pandemic of stress that has followed workers from their offices to their homes. She shares the latest findings from the “science of interruptions,” and how we can stop forfeiting our attention to the next notification, and the next one, ad nauseam.