Nir Eyal
Author of 'Hooked' & 'Indistractable' | Habit Formation & Attention Hacking
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Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of the influential books 'Hooked' and 'Indistractable'. 'Hooked' explores how successful products form user habits, while 'Indistractable' offers science-backed strategies for maintaining focus in a distracted world. Eyal's work examines the psychology behind product design and personal productivity, providing frameworks that empower both creators and consumers of technology to make more mindful choices.
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The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing
Conventional vaccine testing is a slow, years-long process. As thousands of people continue to die each day from COVID-19, bioethicist Nir Eyal proposes a radical idea that could dramatically accelerate the vaccine development timeline: "human challenge trials," in which scientists would deliberately expose volunteers to the virus to more quickly determine a vaccine's efficacy. (This virtual conversation, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson, was recorded June 15, 2020.)
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