Race to the Bottom of the Brain Stem

Since I met Tristan Harris in 2005, he's always been a reasoned iconoclast who has stood for something. After college at Stanford, I recall seeing him with matted hair in downtown Palo Alto. He told me he'd been sleeping on floors in self-imposed hardship to keep himself focused on the most important thing at the time, which was launching his company, Apture. At Apture he sought to bring more depth and context to the web, ultimately signing up the who's who of the publishing world before sell...