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I didn't care for the conversational format of this book. The youth was so one-dimensional it quickly became irritating. He didn't really need to be there. Yeah, I get what they were going for. I just didn't like it.

Perhaps I would have preferred it as a short essay. It might actually be OK as an audiobook.

That said, the message was more interesting than it's presentation. I feel like there's still some value here.

Got interested in the book "The Dopamine Nation" after listening to the hidden brain podcast episode The Paradox of Pleasure, in which the author was interviewed. Probably would have not picked it up in the bookstore otherwise as the message seems clickbaity and obvious, I though that I don't need a book to tell me that modern technology and (social) are designed to make us addicted via dopamine spirals. But the podcast was more interesting than expected and I could identify with some addiction-like behaviors (which I only escaped from due to my partner and friends), so I thought I should give it a shot and I might learn something adaptable to my own life.

My local library doesn't have an e-book copy of this, so I keep putting it off.