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> [Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't we want to use that understanding and protect against the way that that happens?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/once-you-start-understanding-that-your-mind-can-be-scheduled-into/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

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## More by Tristan Harris

> [Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and message amplification…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/traditional-companies-have-been-subject-to-licensing-for-many-years/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/magicians-start-by-looking-for-blind-spots-edges-vulnerabilities-and/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/our-online-news-feeds-aggregate-all-of-the-world-s-pain-and-cruelty/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/i-actually-worry-that-we-re-so-mindlessly-following-the-herd-on/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [We're going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/we-re-going-to-need-a-new-social-contract-with-the-tech-world-one/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/for-any-company-whose-business-model-is-advertising-or-engagement/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [If we really wanted to have a reorientation of the tech industry toward what's best for people, then we would ask the second question,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/if-we-really-wanted-to-have-a-reorientation-of-the-tech-industry/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It's possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people's thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/technology-steers-what-2-billion-people-are-thinking-and-believing/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [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 important? In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/you-re-either-on-and-you-re-connected-and-distracted-all-the-time-or/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a direct threat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/tech-companies-are-distracting-dividing-and-outraging-citizens-to-the/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/once-you-start-understanding-that-your-mind-can-be-scheduled-into/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/we-want-to-have-a-relationship-with-technology-that-gives-us-back/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Apps or media who make money on advertising are never satisfied with 'enough' of your attention. They will always fight for more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/apps-or-media-who-make-money-on-advertising-are-never-satisfied-with/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/i-m-an-expert-on-how-technology-hijacks-our-psychological/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

> [Technology is causing a set of seemingly disconnected things - shortening of attention spans, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, mass narcissism, election engineering, addiction to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tristan-harris/technology-is-causing-a-set-of-seemingly-disconnected-things/)

[Tristan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tristan-harris/)

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