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The Attention Recovery Plan
Your focus has been farmed — and you can feel the difference in everything you try to do.
A sequence designed to walk you back from compulsive scrolling to genuine deep work.
- Books
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- Insights
- 76
Lead article
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
Editor's note
Newport sets the destination. Then we do the work to actually get there.
Reading order
Read it like a sequence, not a shelf.
Each book earns its position by setting up the next question. Move through the stack in order, or jump to the pressure point you can name today.
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01
Cal Newport
Deep Work
Newport defines the kind of attention worth defending.
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02
Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism
Newport again — this time on what to remove from your life.
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03
Anna Lembke
Dopamine Nation
Price runs you through a structured 30-day reset.
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04
Catherine Price
How to Break Up with Your Phone
Lanier explains why you can't just 'use it less'.
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05
Jenny Odell · 2019
How to Do Nothing
Lembke shows the dopamine machinery underneath.
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06
Nir Eyal · 2019
Indistractable
Knapp & Zeratsky rebuilds the day around what matters.
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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
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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10
Tiago Forte · 2022
Building a Second Brain
A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.
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11
Charles Duhigg · 2016
Smarter Faster Better
Productivity is not doing more things; it is choosing the mental model that makes the right things move.
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12
Chris Bailey · 2018
Hyperfocus
The point is not more hours of strain. It is better stewardship of attention.
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13
Jocelyn K. Glei · 2013
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
Explore the core idea, community insights, and practical actions from this read.
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