HumanOS · Book 1
The Attention Trap
How Apps, Algorithms, and Feeds Are Stealing Your Focus
About this book
Every tap, swipe, and notification is the result of a deliberate design choice. The Attention Trap examines how apps, social media platforms, and algorithms compete for one of our most finite resources: focused attention. It explains the psychological mechanisms behind infinite scroll, variable rewards, and notification design, and offers practical strategies for reclaiming cognitive control without abandoning technology entirely.
Main themes
- Attention economics
- Behavioural design
- Digital wellbeing
- Addictive interfaces
Who this book is for
Anyone who has ever picked up their phone with a purpose and found themselves somewhere else thirty minutes later.