Meet the designer disrupting the “attention economy”: Co-founder of advocacy group Time Well Spent Tristan Harris, “the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” was profiled by The Atlantic’s Bianca Bosker. As social media has trained and conditioned users for constant, unnecessary interruptions, with many checking their phones as frequently as 150 times a day, the likes of Harris — who is trying to “bring moral integrity to the tech world” — are essential. Another Silicon Valley veteran Bosker spoke to “compares the tech industry to Big Tobacco before the link between cigarettes and cancer was established: keen to give customers more of what they want, yet simultaneously inflicting collateral damage on their lives.” The solution to engaging in almost toxic, habit-forming norm? Not necessarily entirely unplugging, but “ethical design prototype products…[that] help us set boundaries”, such as an inbox that asks how much time we want to dedicate to email, then gently reminds us once we’ve exceeded our quota.