Editorial program
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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- Insights
- 77
Lead article
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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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01
Jaron Lanier
10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Cialdini names the six levers being pulled on you.
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02
Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Boundaries
Cialdini again — this time on the moment before the pitch.
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03
Nir Eyal
Hooked
Lanier shows what those levers look like at platform scale.
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04
Robert B. Cialdini
Influence
Eyal explains how products are engineered to keep you.
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05
Robert Cialdini
Pre-Suasion
Cloud & Townsend builds the boundary muscle.
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06
Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational
Ariely closes with the irrationality you can't out-think alone.
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07
Gavin de Becker · 1997
The Gift of Fear
The best defense is a simple, easily stated fact: violence is a process, not an event.
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08
Lundy Bancroft · 2002
Why Does He Do That?
The pattern matters more than the apology. Safety begins when confusion stops protecting control.
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09
Kevin Trudeau · 2009
Your Wish Is Your Command
Test the method on its own terms, and test the seller on his. A technique can be useful and the person selling it can still be taking you — those are two separate questions and you are allowed to ask both.
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10
Robert A. Glover · 2003
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Kindness becomes clean when it stops being a trade for approval.
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11
Chase Hughes · 2024
The Behavior Operations Manual
Whatever level of control you want over others, you need three times that level over yourself.
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12
Robert Greene · 2006
The 33 Strategies of War
The best strategy often prevents the fight it understands.
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