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I enjoyed his book a lot, and I’ve slowly removed apps from my phone and silenced notifications and now when I get on social media the noise is pretty much unbearable so I have that inner drive to get back to the quiet. Surveillance capitalism reminds me to Jenny Odell’s “attention economy”.

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Have you read Shoshana Zuboff's book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"? (I read these things to understand what's actually at stake, what it is we're fighting against.) https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/?lens=publicaffairs

I really liked "Stolen Focus." Cory Doctorow is also one of my favorite reads on these subjects because he grounds it all in a deep understanding of capitalism, philosophy, and what's at stake.

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I haven't read that! Thanks for the suggestion.

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