Digital Detox
Reclaim your attention from the scroll. Books on focus in a distracted world.
- 12 Books
- 71 Insights
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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10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowOpen book
Jaron Lanier
Delete the feed, and you start hearing your own mind again.
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Digital MinimalismOpen book
Cal Newport
Clutter is costly. Optimization is important. Intentionality is satisfying.
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Dopamine DetoxOpen book
Thibaut Meurisse
Make ordinary life vivid enough that you stop needing every hour to be intensified.
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Dopamine NationOpen book
Anna Lembke
The paradox is that hedonism, pursued to its logical conclusion, leads to anhedonia.
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How to Break Up with Your PhoneOpen book
Catherine Price
A phone stops running your life when it stops owning your defaults.
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Make TimeOpen book
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
A memorable day usually begins with one decision made before the world's agenda rushes in.
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Stolen FocusOpen book
Johann Hari
The crucial thing is to recognize your attention did not collapse by accident. It was redesigned for extraction.
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Stop Checking Your LikesOpen book
Susie Moore
When you stop auditioning for approval, your real life gets louder than the feed.
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How to Do NothingOpen book
Jenny Odell · 2019
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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IndistractableOpen book
Nir Eyal · 2019
You become indistractable when your calendar tells the truth about what matters and your environment stops getting a vote.
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Notes on a Nervous PlanetOpen book
Matt Haig · 2018
A nervous planet does not require a nervous inner life as proof that you are paying attention.
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HyperfocusOpen book
Chris Bailey · 2018
The point is not more hours of strain. It is better stewardship of attention.
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Open Better Conversations, Better Life26 books
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