Time Well Spent is a 🏷️#non-profit movement to align technology with our humanity. The organization, led by Tristan Harris, aims to transform the race for attention by revealing how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities, and by demonstrating how new incentives and design practices can make technology align with our best interest.
“There's a hidden goal driving the direction of all of the technology… every new site — TED, elections, politicians, games, even meditation apps — have to compete for one thing, which is our attention, and there's only so much of it. [...] So I'm here today because the costs are so obvious. I don't know a more urgent problem than this, because this problem is underneath all other problems. It's not just taking away our agency to spend our attention and live the lives that we want, it's changing the way that we have our conversations, it's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships we want with each other.”
Reflections
"It’s so hard to carve out time for reflecting and setting intentions because it feels like we don’t have the space to focus. There is a multi-billion dollar industry led by some of the world’s smartest minds that is trying to take our most valuable asset away from us — our attention." ~ 📝Mike Radparvar