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Digital Detox

Reclaim your attention from the scroll. Books on focus in a distracted world.

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Collection index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

Jaron Lanier

10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Delete the feed, and you start hearing your own mind again.

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02

Cal Newport

Digital Minimalism

Clutter is costly. Optimization is important. Intentionality is satisfying.

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03

Thibaut Meurisse

Dopamine Detox

Make ordinary life vivid enough that you stop needing every hour to be intensified.

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04

Anna Lembke

Dopamine Nation

The paradox is that hedonism, pursued to its logical conclusion, leads to anhedonia.

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05

Catherine Price

How to Break Up with Your Phone

A phone stops running your life when it stops owning your defaults.

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06

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

Make Time

A memorable day usually begins with one decision made before the world's agenda rushes in.

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07

Johann Hari

Stolen Focus

The crucial thing is to recognize your attention did not collapse by accident. It was redesigned for extraction.

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08

Susie Moore

Stop Checking Your Likes

When you stop auditioning for approval, your real life gets louder than the feed.

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09

Jenny Odell · 2019

How to Do Nothing

Attention becomes freedom when it stops serving the systems that scatter it and starts tending the world that can actually answer back.

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10

Nir Eyal · 2019

Indistractable

You become indistractable when your calendar tells the truth about what matters and your environment stops getting a vote.

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