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AddictionBook

by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

Who uses, recommends or left Addiction, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Nate Silver
Statistician and writer; founder of FiveThirtyEight, now writes the Silver Bulletin newsletter and is the author of On the Edge.
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The third is called Addiction by Design um by Natasha Schüll. And Natasha is an NYU anthropologist who studied Las Vegas as like her thesis, basically. She did like a lot of reporting um just about the properties of slot machines and how addictive they are and about the kind of casino gambling industry in general. And of course, she draws metaphors between that and the rest of uh society. Nate Silver. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ezra.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Nate Silver on Kamala Harris’s Chances and the Mistakes of the ‘Indigo Blob’” (https://nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-nate-silver.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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