Editorial Program
HourLife Collection · 6 books · 36 insights
Become Hard To Manipulate
“Most of what shapes your decisions wasn't put there by you.”
A persuasion-literacy curriculum: ads, apps, conversations, and the soft pressure of other people's wants.
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10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier
Editor's note
Cialdini first. Once you see the six levers, you'll see them everywhere.
Reading Order
Read it like a sequence, not a shelf.
Each book earns its position by setting up the next question. Move through the stack in order, or jump to the pressure point you can name today.
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10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Cialdini names the six levers being pulled on you.
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Pre-Suasion
Cialdini again — this time on the moment before the pitch.
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Boundaries
Lanier shows what those levers look like at platform scale.
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Hooked
Eyal explains how products are engineered to keep you.
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Influence
Cloud & Townsend builds the boundary muscle.
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Predictably Irrational
Ariely closes with the irrationality you can't out-think alone.
Practice Desk
Pair the shelf with a tool.
Reading changes thinking. Tools turn thinking into a Tuesday afternoon you actually run differently.
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