He is a PhD in Psychology, and he challenges existing dogma about addiction by claiming that “there’s an addict in all of us”. In the first part Alter dives into substance addiction and behavioral addiction as well as the similarities and differences between the two. The book basically covers three broad topics – basics of behavioral addiction, the ways companies/tools create and feed that addiction, and the future of technology addiction. The author does his research on addiction and dives deep into the latest research and developments that are still figuring out why we humans get addicted to things. Alarm bell.īut it’s not just what social media can do to kids. The author, Adam Alter, immediately gets your attention by detailing how so many top execs and leaders in social media and online companies privately do not allow their kids to use the very technologies they made their fortunes on. Check that, numerous dark sides.Įnter the book Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. To be clear, I don’t hate it and I actually realize the utility and usefulness of it in many ways. But, I knew that to get an audience I would have to spend more time on social media.įull disclosure, I’m not the biggest fan of social media. Why was I so unsure? I really enjoy writing and loved the idea of having a blog. I started this blog late last year after much apprehension and hesitation to do so.
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They go to the cell Holston locks himself inside. Pan to a dead body visible on the wallscreen. Holston wobbles, grabs a chair, makes it to his office. Up in the cafeteria, Holston dodges through the kids, pan to a shot of the wallscreen, and then as he’s walking toward his office, a short flashback to his wife on the ground screaming to be let out. You could even throw the intro credits (or whatever you call them) on the screen during this bit. Close up of his hand on the railing, the worn metal treads, the chipping paint, a shot of a light bulb flickering, rust stains on the wall, more squealing from above, maybe a ball goes bouncing through a railing and tumbles into space (or a paper plane, or an article of clothing). Start with Holston on the stairs, walking up, sounds of children playing (fans of the books would dig this being ripped right off the page). If I was entrusted with writing the screenplay, I would tell the story of WOOL pretty much as it is in the book, but with longer flashbacks, more of a sense of mystery and discovery, and more with Marnes and Jahns. I would only tell what’s in the first WOOL. So here’s what I would do (SPOILER ALERT!): This and the offer from the BBC has me wondering just what sort of film or TV show anyone would expect to make of WOOL. (I suppose I’ll know more about this *after* we talk). Tonight I’ll be talking to my film co-agent, who I think is going to shop WOOL around to studios and production companies. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him.Īnd then one day, a strong-willed young woman named Jenny walked into his life. Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Despite his loving parents' best efforts, John's attempts to meet their expectations failed spectacularly. Now, in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the story of what came first.īefore there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and '70s. In his debut bestseller, Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience-from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows-rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring. … reminds us that small things have great depths.” – New York Times Book Review “A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. (It’s the threat of a permanent colostomy bag that frightens Perry into quitting.) In 2018, aged 49, his colon exploded, which is where his memoir begins: a vivid near-death hellscape (counsellors try to stop him going to hospital, thinking it’s “drug-seeking behaviour”) involving seven-hour surgery (with a 2% chance of survival), a coma, huge scars and nine months with a colostomy bag that keeps bursting, covering him with faeces. But his book is chiefly about the titular “Big Terrible Thing”: Perry’s alcoholism and painkiller/opioid addiction (Ox圜ontin, Vicodin, Dilaudid, to name a few) that led to him spending more than half his life in rehab and treatment centres, detoxing more than 65 times, and paying upwards of $9m trying to get sober.įamous by his mid-20s, Perry’s compulsions led to him suffering pancreatitis by 30. Just please make me famous.” In this memoir, Perry talks about achieving that mammoth success and fame: at its peak, the series’ cast members were each earning more than a million dollars an episode. N ot long before he won the life-changing role of Chandler Bing in the global sitcom phenomenon Friends, Matthew Perry prayed: “God, you can do whatever you want to me. OL1938305W Pages 36 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200826160853 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 215 Scandate 20200818150641 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4. 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