The introduction of the iPhone and attention-competing apps have led to communication being algorithmically determined to provoke negative emotions.

“we restructured all of human communication in 2007 with the iphone so people did text and have emails with blackberry not even close to at scale basically 2007 onward changed everything mobile textual communication predominantly done on your iphone radically restructured how we changed everything pile on top of that apps which are competing for your attention instagram facebook twitter all of that the primary modes which we consume information are algorithmically determined to kind of piss you off”