The author says companies building habit forming products have a moral obligation to make sure their users don't have an unhealthy use of their products. Addictions always hurt the user, so I would never want anyone to create a product intended to addict others. If we know someone is addicted and wants to stop, we have a responsibility to help them. The beauty of this interactive technology that's being collected on us is that if these companies wanted to do something about the addicts, they could.
I have a listener survey and one of you suggested Nir Eyal as a superguest. Today (thanks to your suggestion) I got to interview the man himself. Nir is the author of the buzz-worthy book Hooked: How To Build Habit-Forming Products. Nir did not disappoint. The guy is a wealth of knowledge and you’ll notice listening […]