While nations protect their physical borders, tech platforms leave digital borders wide open. — Tristan Harris Borders Copy Share Image
If you're an app, how do you keep people hooked? Turn yourself into a slot machine. — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Information that confirms our beliefs makes us feel good; information that challenges our beliefs doesn't. — Tristan Harris Challenges Copy Share Image
None of most powerful tech companies answer to what's best for people, only to what's best for them. — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
We're all vulnerable to social approval. The need to belong, to be approved or appreciated by our peers is among the highest… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
There's nothing in your life or in our collective problems that does not require our ability to put our attention where we… — Tristan Harris Attention Copy Share Image
Every year, more and more friends, apps, media or news stories want our attention. We need a better way to organize all… — Tristan Harris Attention Copy Share Image
YouTube has a hundred engineers who are trying to get the perfect next video to play automatically. And their techniques are only… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a… — Tristan Harris Common ground Copy Share Image
New technologies always reshape society, and it's always tempting to worry about them solely for this reason. — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out… — Tristan Harris Attention Copy Share Image
For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of… — Tristan Harris Design Copy Share Image
The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don't speak in terms of nuance or complexity.… — Tristan Harris Accident Copy Share Image
If we really wanted to have a reorientation of the tech industry toward what's best for people, then we would ask the… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't… — Tristan Harris Learning Copy Share Image
I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist… — Tristan Harris Caring Copy Share Image
I noticed when I was at Stanford, there was a class called the persuasive technology design class, and it was a whole… — Tristan Harris Design Copy Share Image
We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're… — Tristan Harris Design Copy Share Image
Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Most notifications you get are because a machine is trying to get your attention. Those notifications aren't built to help you live… — Tristan Harris Attention Copy Share Image
For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on… — Tristan Harris Advertising Copy Share Image
Technology is causing a set of seemingly disconnected things - shortening of attention spans, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, mass narcissism, election engineering,… — Tristan Harris Addiction Copy Share Image
Yes, online privacy is a real problem that needs to be addressed. But even the best privacy laws are only as effective… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
While you can use muscle-memory to unconsciously move your thumb to open an app without thinking, it's actually impossible to type on… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Apps or media who make money on advertising are never satisfied with 'enough' of your attention. They will always fight for more. — Tristan Harris Advertising Copy Share Image
The EU can lead the world toward more humane technology. But doing so requires thinking more broadly about reining in social media… — Tristan Harris Democracies Copy Share Image
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the… — Tristan Harris Character Copy Share Image
With our Paleolithic instincts, we're simply unable to resist technology's gifts. But this doesn't just compromise our privacy. It also compromises our… — Tristan Harris Action Copy Share Image
If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
You're either on, and you're connected and distracted all the time, or you're off, but then you're wondering, am I missing something… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without… — Tristan Harris Blind Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to spend my time. Probably too much - I probably obsess over… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
With its onslaught of never-ending choices, never-ending supply of relationships and obligations, the attention economy bulldozes the natural shape of our physical… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It's possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and… — Tristan Harris Advertising Copy Share Image
We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so… — Tristan Harris Attention Copy Share Image
Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
