Reading collection
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
Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism
Clutter is costly. Optimization is important. Intentionality is satisfying.
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02
Thibaut Meurisse
Dopamine Detox
Make ordinary life vivid enough that you stop needing every hour to be intensified.
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03
Anna Lembke
Dopamine Nation
The paradox is that hedonism, pursued to its logical conclusion, leads to anhedonia.
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04
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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05
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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06
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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07
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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08
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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09
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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Susie Moore
Stop Checking Your Likes
When you stop auditioning for approval, your real life gets louder than the feed.
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Matt Haig · 2018
Notes on a Nervous Planet
A nervous planet does not require a nervous inner life as proof that you are paying attention.
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Chris Bailey · 2018
Hyperfocus
The point is not more hours of strain. It is better stewardship of attention.
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ADHD & Focus
For the restless and the distracted. Books that meet you where you are.
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Become Hard To Manipulate
A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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