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Re:The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction by anigbrowl on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:18PM (#14426481)
I did not know (but am not surprised) to know that 'attention engineer' is a standardized job description now, or indeed that there's a whole field of neuroeconomics - most interesting. I can't help noticing that your two tools seem to be directly opposed to each other; usedopamine offers to leverage dopamine hits for commercial purposes, whereas youjustneedspace seems designed to insulate users from exactly that problem - I hope. If the two are designed to complement each other in order to increase the commercial payoff of individual dopamine hits then I would have to question whether you were being altogether straight with users of the latter tool.

You may find my other comment on this post interesting or boringly obvious. I'm fascinated by what you're doing here but right now I'm not sure whether I love you or hate you.

Re:The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction by tdaltonc on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:20PM (#14427278)
I would prefer to say that they're 'symmetrical.'

It should be easy for a person to add and remove habits from their life. The Dopamine API makes app more effective at creating habits so that users can add them. Space makes it easy for users to out down habits that they wish they didn't have.