This is why the American Psychological Association is now recognizing tech use disorders and scrambling to treat them. But the answer isn’t to use our phones less. Not even close. “Like with drugs, problematic technology use is never just about the product,” Nir Eyal told me. He’s a former Stanford professor and tech entrepreneur who wrote the book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. He continued, “Problematic technology use is about the interaction between the product, the person, and their ability to cope with discomfort, and then a situation in their life that causes a pain that
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