EST. MMXXVI · A PUBLIC RECORD
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CR-00720.06.MMXXVI

I tuned our refresh gesture to feel like a slot machine: pull, tension, spring, and a variable payout of new posts. Sometimes nothing, sometimes treasure. Intermittent reward is the strongest habit loop we know, and I shipped it to a hundred million phones.

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Source The Guardian, "'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia" (2017)

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Variable rewardsAddictive designAttention capture

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