Ferriss: Individual willpower cannot beat social media engagement algorithms
Tim Ferriss · Advice Line with Tim Ferriss · Aug 28, 2025 · at 4:30
Author and investor Tim Ferriss discusses digital detoxing and why he removed all social media apps from his phone.
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“For the last, I'd say, two, maybe three years, I've had no social media apps on my phone, because if you think you're going to use discipline to beat teams of, you know, computational neuroscientists and statisticians and computer scientists who are, have billions of dollars at stake in ensuring that they can overcome any type of resistance you have to using their program or platform compulsively, you're just bringing a butter knife to a gunfight.”
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