Indistractable by Nir Eyal6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It would be too uncharitable to dismiss Indistractable as merely an attempt to backtrack. Here, as in Hooked, Eyal advances a four-part model – and even describes it as a “superpower” again – only this time it’s for users: it sets out how to be “indistractable” in a world that’s angling for our attention. ![]() Now, five years later, as individuals and societies have begun to discern the extent to which distraction is a feature, not a bug, of the industrialisation of persuasive design, Eyal has returned with a self-help book. Eyal advanced a four-part model for exploiting triggers, rewards and other elements of habit formation to systematically manipulate user behaviour he described the model as “a new superpower” for designers. So far, the closest thing to a bible for designers who have been enlisted in that war for our attention – those tasked with hacking human psychology to increase “engagement” with their products – has been Nir Eyal’s bestselling 2014 book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. ![]()
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Nostromo shakespeare6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Sometime between 15, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. ![]() Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. ![]() Lady helen and the dark days club6/30/2023 ![]() Helen is keen to complete her training, but is torn between her loyalty to Carlston and the orders of the Home Office (government), who want to use her skills and talents for their own agenda. Her mentor, Lord Carlston, believes that a Grand Deceiver has arrived in England, and he needs to prepare Helen immediately to fight it. The protagonist is Lady Helen Wrexhall and she is continuing her Reclaimer training to prepare for her duties as a fully-fledged member of the Dark Days Club. It is set in Brighton, in July 1812, in the time known as the Regency. It combines the high society of 19 th century England with supernatural underworld.īeing the second book in a series of three, I found it quite confusing as to what the reader was expected to already know characters' backgrounds, relevance of events, etc. ![]() ![]() This book is the second of the Lady Helen trilogy. ![]() |