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b'Craig Mod is a writer and photographer. His podcast is On Margins.\\n\\n \\u201cYou pick up an iPad, you pick up an iPhone\\u2014what are you picking up? You\\u2019re picking up a chemical-driven casino that just plays on your most base desires for vanity and ego and our obsession with watching train wrecks happen. That\\u2019s what we\\u2019re picking up and it\\u2019s counted in pageviews, because\\u2014not to be reductive and say that it\\u2019s a capitalist issue, but when you take hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital, and you\\u2019re building models predicated on advertising, you are gonna create fucked-up algorithms and shitty loops that take away your attention. And guess what? You need to engage with longform texts. You need control of your attention. And so I think part of what subverted our ability to find this utopian reading space is the fact that so much of what\\u2019s on these devices is actively working to destroy all of the qualities needed to create that space.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@craigmod\\ncraigmod.com\\nCriag Mod on Longform\\n[01:15] Flipboard\\n[01:26] On Margins\\n[02:40] "Roden Explorer\'s Club," Craig Mod\'s Newsletter\\n[09:30] McSweeney\\u2019s\\n[20:30] "Embracing the Digital Book" (PRE/POST \\u2022 April 2010)\\n[22:25] Books in the Age of the iPad (PRE/POST \\u2022 2012)\\n[25:30] Post Artifact Books & Publishing (PRE/POST \\u2022 2011)\\n[43:10] Primitive Technology\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'