
Social media addiction: how it works and why it's not your fault
Persuasive design turns a habit into a reflex. Understanding the mechanism is the first step to defusing it.
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Ideas prácticas sobre atención, smartphones y fricción intencional.

Persuasive design turns a habit into a reflex. Understanding the mechanism is the first step to defusing it.

Infinite feeds removed the only stop signal we had: the end of the page. Here's what happens in your brain and how to fight back.

23 minutes to recover deep focus after one interruption. Let's do the real math on what an unguarded phone costs.
Between panic and denial there's a middle path: understanding what actually changed for the first generation raised with a feed in their pocket.
Every ping is a small withdrawal from your attention account. The math of interruptions, and how to zero them without disappearing.
It's not app-guided meditation or a weekend detox. It's the difference between using a tool and being used by it.
No miracle recipes: seven concrete habits, ordered from easiest to most powerful, to put the phone back in its place.
Micro-sessions, cooldowns, guided breathing, anti-scroll: the full tour of the philosophy and the features, plan by plan.
Same app, three strategies: study sessions without TikTok, deep work without pings, and a kid's first smartphone.
"You've reached your 1-hour limit" — and you tap "Ignore limit". The difference between a passive counter and designed friction.