What Sahar Yousef has said about Social media algorithms
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Sahar Yousef, Cognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity, has been quoted on Social media algorithms once in 1 episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Yousef claims feed algorithms withhold the content users will love until they are about to leave, then deliver a 'jackpot'.
“It knows the moment you're about to do that and right before you do that, Hits you with the jackpot”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 36:05
Episodes
Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.
Others on Social media algorithms
- Adam Aleksic · 5 quotes
- Robert Greene · 2 quotes
- Lex Fridman · 1 quote
- Connor Leahy · 1 quote
Sahar Yousef on other topics
- Persuasive technology and engagement design · 3 quotes
- Artificial intelligence · 2 quotes
- Focus sprint · 2 quotes
- Smartphone addiction · 1 quote
- Human multitasking · 1 quote
- Chronotype · 1 quote
- Rumination · 1 quote
- Brain breaks and boredom · 1 quote