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A book I’d encourage anyone living in our present era to read. The author explores a topic we’ve all considered from as many angles as possible, while being explicitly forthright that some of the included research is more solid than others. I’ve seen this used as a critique against the book (“why include THIS?! it’s bunk science!”) as though there was no warning — a perspective I find foolish.
It avoids the nagging self-help paradigm and instead tries to lay down the facts on what’s going on, what we can do individually, and what we can do societally. You walk away with broad strokes of what’s important (train your focus, don’t context switch often, find your flow, let your mind wander, etc) while also understanding how society is crumbling.
A few portions covering the tech side of attention-grabbing-tools in the modern era were a touch repetitive / obvious (did the author REALLY not have a single family member who knew what an algorithm was in 2015..?). But that might be a personal problem.
It avoids the nagging self-help paradigm and instead tries to lay down the facts on what’s going on, what we can do individually, and what we can do societally. You walk away with broad strokes of what’s important (train your focus, don’t context switch often, find your flow, let your mind wander, etc) while also understanding how society is crumbling.
A few portions covering the tech side of attention-grabbing-tools in the modern era were a touch repetitive / obvious (did the author REALLY not have a single family member who knew what an algorithm was in 2015..?). But that might be a personal problem.