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Your Modern Lifestyle Is Nice, But It Might Be Killing You with Mark Manson

The Science of Success

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Is Technology Taking Advantage of Our Psychological Flaws?

The author says technology has developed in a direction where it's taking advantage of our psychological weaknesses. He argues that social media should be used to help people recognize their cognitive biases and steer them the right way, not just reinforce them. "If you give people too much of what they want, they just become infantile"

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