Category: What I’m Reading

Who stole my focus? Looking for answers, I recently read “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again”. Author Johann Hari basically tells me to blame the tech companies for hijacking my attention.  They’re the bad guys, he argues. Their business models are intentionally designed to capture my eyeballs. Worse, they…

The subtitle of this book encapsulates my own message about digital minimalism in general and news consumption in particular: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life. Its Swiss author, Rolf Dobelli, first published his manifesto in 2019 but his message could not be more timely. With the most recent US Presidential election and all the other…

When I first decided to reclaim my overloaded brain, starting with my phone, I thought I was oh-so-terribly-clever when I told a friend I was breaking up with it. I soon discovered mine was not an original idea in the least. And thank goodness for that. Substacker, TED speaker, health and science journalist, and author…