Nir Eyal's Blog, page 15
August 4, 2021
Here’s a Free Schedule Maker—the Ultimate Productivity Tool
Below is a free schedule maker template (it’s a Google sheet available here) to create your own timeboxed weekly calendar. After you open it, click on the blue “Use Template” button to create your own copy—it will show up in your Google account at drive.google.com. To see exactly how to use it, scroll down. Many […]
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August 1, 2021
20 Common Values [and Why People Can’t Agree On More]
When you replace the typical definition of ‘values’ with a better one, your life suddenly becomes clearer. When I recently came across the headline “The World’s Most Influential Values, In One Graphic,” I couldn’t help but click–a good data visualization is like catnip for me. The chart, compiled by global research company Valuegraphics, shows the […]
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July 21, 2021
Can We Please Stop Calling Everyone “Addicted”?
It’s disrespectful, degrading, and disempowering. In my review of The Social Dilemma, I challenged the filmmakers’ rather extreme view that huge swaths of people are “addicted to technology,” that social media is like a dangerous drug that’s hijacking people’s brains, and that big tech companies are trapping people in something akin to The Matrix movie. […]
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July 19, 2021
Why Do People Believe the ‘Social Media is Mind Control’ Myth?
In our search for easy answers, we give up control. The evidence is overwhelming: we are far more powerful than the technology that is supposedly mind-controlling us. It’s not even close. As I’ve discussed in other articles, we need to give ourselves more credit. Instead of passively accepting the idea that we’re all being puppeteered […]
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