In my last post I wrote about Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus. The article sparked a really nice discussion over at Hacker News, where a user had this to say: Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn’t necessarily trust Johann Hari’s writing out of hand - ie other things in the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari It’s a valid observation, and it got me thinking again about a concept I’ve been mulling over for a long time: Death of t...