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Williams

James Williams, a philosopher and former Google employee who wrote a book about how technology competes for human attention.

Stolen Focus. Why You Can’t Pay Attention, Johann Hari

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• Stolen Focus. Why You Can’t Pay Attention, Johann Hari
• Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, Andrew Steele

  George Williams (1926–2010), an American evolutionary biologist. In 1957, he proposed that genes helpful in youth can be harmful in old age, using this to explain aging.

• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

  George Williams (1926 to 2010), an American evolutionary biologist, the author of Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966), in which he criticised the idea of selection for the good of the group.

• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping, Robert M. Sapolsky

  Redford Williams, an American researcher at Duke University who showed that of all the Type A traits, hostility is the one most strongly linked to heart disease.

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