A review by rebeccazh
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

4.0

3.5 stars. This is a decent read as an introduction to ideas about tech and attention. I find Hari's writing style a bit lacking in nuance and I'm familiar with most of the stuff he's covering, hence a 3.5 stars. He covers: tech and exploitative design, loss of focus and fractured attention, the power of sleep, the quality of food, children and how tech and stress affects them developmentally, an increasingly stressful society and its effects on attention, mind wandering, creativity, flow, and work life balance. This will probably pair well with The Anxious Generation, and echoes many of the points about exploitative or persuasive design in other works.