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For businesses, this means that services that can grab and hold consumers’ attention for longer will be rewarded. For consumers, it means that we will have to be ruthless in our relationship with technology. Business best practices are not equivalent to consumer best interests.

The Addiction Economy

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Everything that might require action must be reviewed on a frequent enough basis to keep your mind from taking back the job of remembering and reminding. In order to trust the rapid and intuitive judgment calls that you make about actions from moment to moment, you must consistently retrench at some more elevated level. In my experience (with thousands of people), that translates into a behavior critical for success: the Weekly Review.

Getting Things Done

David Allen

There were other reasons for it, besides corporate greed and schmuck insurance. Rupert Murdoch had already attempted a hostile takeover of Bewkes’s company in 2014, and had HBO poured more money into production, it would have affected its bottom line, knocked the stock price down, and made HBO once again a tempting takeover target.

Pandora's Box

Peter Biskind

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