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Hooked (Collector's Edition) (Never After, 1)

Emily McIntire

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The Jordan Harbinger Show

It was mentioned as a book about how apps and services can create addictions. It was mentioned as a relevant example when talking about how smartphones can affect conversations.

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but I know we've discussed this on the show before with guys like near a y'all who wrote hooked which is about why things like apps and services are creating addictions

— Episode: 423: Celeste Headlee | How to Have Conve...

Episode: 423: Celeste Headlee | How to Have Conversations T...

It was mentioned as a book about how apps and services can create addictions. It was mentioned as a relevant example when talking about how smartphones can affect conversations.

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but I know we've discussed this on the show before with guys like near a y'all who wrote hooked which is about why things like apps and services are creating addictions

Episode: 250: Nir Eyal | Control Your Attention and Choose...

It was discussed as a book that explains how to build habit-forming products, not addictive ones, using behavioral design techniques and using the Bible app as an example.

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my first book hooked is about how to build habit forming technologies habit forming products it's not about how to build addictive products addiction is something very different

it's not a game it's not a social network it's the bible app the bible app is one of the most widely used apps in the world and it actually uses many of these same techniques that i talk about in my book hook these behavioral design techniques to create habits for people

Episode: 48: Nir Eyal | How to Manage Distraction in a Digi...

It was discussed as a guide to designing engaging products, specifically highlighting its use for tech companies, but also acknowledging its unintentional application for manipulating user behaviour.

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Your first book that I read was called Hooked and I thought oh, that's really interesting.

Hooked was this book on how to build a kind of products that people want to use that improves their lives.

Now it just so happens that my model for how to do that came from the best in the business right if you want to get really good at something, if you want to be an amazing runner, maybe you call you same bolt right if you want to be an amazing investor you call Warren Buffett.

So the best in the business when it comes to consumer engagement and retention are these social media companies right.

Your first book was called Hooked.

Episode: 250: Nir Eyal | Control Your Attention and Choose...

It was discussed as an example of how behavioural design principles can be used to create habits in widely used apps, even the Bible app. It was mentioned it is not about addictive products, but habit-forming products.

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my first book hooked is about how to build habit-forming technologies habit forming products it's not about how to build addictive products addiction is something very different

the bible app is one of the most widely used apps in the world and it actually uses many of these same techniques that i talk about in my book hook these behavioral design techniques to create habits for people

Episode: 48: Nir Eyal | How to Manage Distraction in a Digi...

It was discussed as a book on how to build habit-forming products, using examples from social media and other industries, but it was not meant as an endorsement of those companies.

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your first book that I read was called hooked and I thought oh, that's really interesting

Hooked was this book on how to build a kind of products that people want to use that improves their lives

For many people who read the book...more of a mainstream audience that doesn't necessarily build apps or websites...And they tell me my god my eyes were open because I never knew that this was being done to me

your first book was called Hooked

Episode: 250: Nir Eyal | Control Your Attention and Choose...

It was discussed as a book that describes how to build habit-forming products, using the Bible app as a case study to demonstrate the principles.

"

my first book hooked is about how to build habit-forming technologies habit forming products it's not about how to build addictive products addiction is something very different

the bible app is one of the most widely used apps in the world and it actually uses many of these same techniques that i talk about in my book hook these behavioral design techniques to create habits for people

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