Anna Lembke: Is Digital Addiction Misplaced Moral Ambition?
Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation helped shape the strategy of Boys & Men Online. As you’ll hear in our conversation, it also changed my daily routine.
I spent a lot of time preparing for this episode … and then the conversation went somewhere else, somewhere fascinating and unexpected.
A few of the ideas we explore:
* Impulsivity used to help men hunt. Now it helps DraftKings make money. Risk-taking can be a pro-social trait, a willingness to sacrifice for the tribe. But in a world of frictionless betting, gaming, porn, and status loops, that same impulse is easily exploited.
* Boys and young…
The skinny
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