👁️ Attention Economy

Examinations of how our focus has become the most contested commodity of the digital age—harvested by platforms, monetized by advertisers, and depleted by design. These books illuminate what's at stake when distraction becomes a business model.

Solitude

by Michael Harris • 2017

Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.

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📵 Digital Detox 🎨 Solitude And Creativity 🌲 Nature Therapy 🪞 Self-Reflection 📱 Tech Criticism

Solitude

Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.

by Michael Harris 2017

3.66

2k+ ratings

📵 Digital Detox 🎨 Solitude And Creativity 🌲 Nature Therapy 🪞 Self-Reflection 📱 Tech Criticism

12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

by Tony Reinke • 2017

Your phone is making you a worse worshipper. Here is what to do about it.

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✝️ Digital Theology 📺 Media Ecology 📱 Smartphone Addiction 🙏 Spiritual Formation 🗿 Idolatry

12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Your phone is making you a worse worshipper. Here is what to do about it.

by Tony Reinke 2017

4.28

8k+ ratings

✝️ Digital Theology 📺 Media Ecology 📱 Smartphone Addiction 🙏 Spiritual Formation 🗿 Idolatry

Don't Be Evil

by Rana Foroohar • 2019

The internet promised openness. What arrived was surveillance, addiction, and monopoly.

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🏢 Big Tech Critique 🔒 Data Privacy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy 🏛️ Tech Regulation

Don't Be Evil

The internet promised openness. What arrived was surveillance, addiction, and monopoly.

by Rana Foroohar 2019

3.85

1k+ ratings

🏢 Big Tech Critique 🔒 Data Privacy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy 🏛️ Tech Regulation

The End of Absence

by Michael Harris • 2014

The last generation to know life before the internet reveals what constant connection has hidden.

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🌐 Internet Criticism 📺 Media Ecology 📵 Digital Detox 🧘 Digital Solitude 📚 Information Overload

The End of Absence

The last generation to know life before the internet reveals what constant connection has hidden.

by Michael Harris 2014

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2k+ ratings

🌐 Internet Criticism 📺 Media Ecology 📵 Digital Detox 🧘 Digital Solitude 📚 Information Overload

Radical Curiosity

by Seth Goldenberg • 2022

Retrain your curiosity to reclaim your attention, bridge divides, and build a future worth wanting.

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🧐 Questioning Culture 📚 Critical Pedagogy ⚡ Social Polarization 🔄 Unlearning 🏛️ Civic Renewal

Radical Curiosity

Retrain your curiosity to reclaim your attention, bridge divides, and build a future worth wanting.

by Seth Goldenberg 2022

3.61

103 ratings

🧐 Questioning Culture 📚 Critical Pedagogy ⚡ Social Polarization 🔄 Unlearning 🏛️ Civic Renewal

World Without Mind

by Franklin Foer • 2017

A counterculture dream of global harmony became a corporate machine for total surveillance.

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🏢 Big Tech Critique 🧱 Monopoly Power 🤖 Algorithmic Control 🏪 Cultural Homogenization ✊ Tech Resistance

World Without Mind

A counterculture dream of global harmony became a corporate machine for total surveillance.

by Franklin Foer 2017

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2k+ ratings

🏢 Big Tech Critique 🧱 Monopoly Power 🤖 Algorithmic Control 🏪 Cultural Homogenization ✊ Tech Resistance

Golden

by Justin Zorn • 2022

Silence heals the brain. Justice requires it. We've engineered a world that forbids both.

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🧘 Inner Silence 👂 Active Listening 📴 Digital Detox 🧠 Presence Practice 💻 Ethics Of Technology

Golden

Silence heals the brain. Justice requires it. We've engineered a world that forbids both.

by Justin Zorn 2022

3.86

547 ratings

🧘 Inner Silence 👂 Active Listening 📴 Digital Detox 🧠 Presence Practice 💻 Ethics Of Technology

Captivology

by Ben Parr • 2015

Your audience is scrolling. Seven psychological triggers that stop thumbs and earn real minutes.

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📊 Marketing Psychology 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Persuasion Science 🤔 Cognitive Biases 📚 Information Overload

Captivology

Your audience is scrolling. Seven psychological triggers that stop thumbs and earn real minutes.

by Ben Parr 2015

3.79

391 ratings

📊 Marketing Psychology 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Persuasion Science 🤔 Cognitive Biases 📚 Information Overload

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

by John Brockman • 2014

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

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🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception 🕸️ Complex Systems 🏛️ Institutional Failure

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

by John Brockman 2014

3.45

1k+ ratings

🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception 🕸️ Complex Systems 🏛️ Institutional Failure

The Information Diet

by Clay A. Johnson • 2011

Information overload is a myth. Affirmation outsells truth, and your attention is the product.

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📚 Information Literacy 🌿 Digital Wellness 📰 Media Literacy 🌐 Media Ecology 🗳️ Civic Engagement

The Information Diet

Information overload is a myth. Affirmation outsells truth, and your attention is the product.

by Clay A. Johnson 2011

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2k+ ratings

📚 Information Literacy 🌿 Digital Wellness 📰 Media Literacy 🌐 Media Ecology 🗳️ Civic Engagement

How to Write Clearly

by Tom Albrighton • 2021

Your writing isn't clear unless your reader says so. The reader-psychology method that works.

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📝 Plain Language 💼 Business Writing 🧠 Reader Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Biases ✂️ Editing Craft

How to Write Clearly

Your writing isn't clear unless your reader says so. The reader-psychology method that works.

by Tom Albrighton 2021

4.29

112 ratings

📝 Plain Language 💼 Business Writing 🧠 Reader Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Biases ✂️ Editing Craft

Working Hard, Hardly Working

by Grace Beverley • 2021

Burnout isn't a badge. A system for working less, resting more, and achieving what actually matters.

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⚙️ Productivity Systems 🛑 Hustle Culture Critique 🧯 Burnout Recovery 🌊 Flow States 📵 Social Media Boundaries

Working Hard, Hardly Working

Burnout isn't a badge. A system for working less, resting more, and achieving what actually matters.

by Grace Beverley 2021

3.49

4k+ ratings

⚙️ Productivity Systems 🛑 Hustle Culture Critique 🧯 Burnout Recovery 🌊 Flow States 📵 Social Media Boundaries

Non Obvious Megatrends

by Rohit Bhargava • 2020

Most people see what's obvious. The five habits and one method for seeing what comes next.

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📈 Trend Forecasting 🔍 Pattern Recognition 💚 Conscious Capitalism ⚧️ Gender Fluidity 🪪 Digital Identity

Non Obvious Megatrends

Most people see what's obvious. The five habits and one method for seeing what comes next.

by Rohit Bhargava 2020

3.56

351 ratings

📈 Trend Forecasting 🔍 Pattern Recognition 💚 Conscious Capitalism ⚧️ Gender Fluidity 🪪 Digital Identity

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

by Jen Lancaster • 2020

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

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🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 🍼 Parenting Pressure

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

by Jen Lancaster 2020

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6k+ ratings

🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 🍼 Parenting Pressure

In Emergency, Break Glass

by Nate Anderson • 2022

Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.

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🏛️ Applied Philosophy 🔧 Technology Critique 🏆 Personal Mastery 📚 Information Diet 🧘 Creative Solitude

In Emergency, Break Glass

Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.

by Nate Anderson 2022

3.91

323 ratings

🏛️ Applied Philosophy 🔧 Technology Critique 🏆 Personal Mastery 📚 Information Diet 🧘 Creative Solitude

The People's Platform

by Astra Taylor • 2012

Digital abundance set culture free and made it cheap. Platforms got rich; creators got precarious.

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🖥️ Internet Culture 🏭 Platform Capitalism ⚖️ Copyright Reform 📉 Digital Inequality 💰 Media Economics

The People's Platform

Digital abundance set culture free and made it cheap. Platforms got rich; creators got precarious.

by Astra Taylor 2012

4.04

610 ratings

🖥️ Internet Culture 🏭 Platform Capitalism ⚖️ Copyright Reform 📉 Digital Inequality 💰 Media Economics

The Art of Bitfulness

by Nandan Nilekani • 2022

Phones exploit your psychology by design. Three modes that make deep focus the easy choice.

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🧘 Digital Wellness 🔄 Habit Design ⏰ Time Management 🔒 Privacy And Data 🧠 Cognitive Biases

The Art of Bitfulness

Phones exploit your psychology by design. Three modes that make deep focus the easy choice.

by Nandan Nilekani 2022

4.21

128 ratings

🧘 Digital Wellness 🔄 Habit Design ⏰ Time Management 🔒 Privacy And Data 🧠 Cognitive Biases

The Extinction of Experience

by Christine Rosen • 2024

The price of a seamless life: you lose patience, presence, and the ability to read a face.

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📱 Digital Culture 🗣 Technology Criticism 🧠 Embodied Cognition 📲 Smartphone Effects 👥 Face-To-Face Communication

The Extinction of Experience

The price of a seamless life: you lose patience, presence, and the ability to read a face.

by Christine Rosen 2024

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2k+ ratings

📱 Digital Culture 🗣 Technology Criticism 🧠 Embodied Cognition 📲 Smartphone Effects 👥 Face-To-Face Communication

The Secret Life of You

by Kerri Sackville • 2023

We would rather shock ourselves than think. A practical guide to the lost skill of solitude.

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🧘 Solitude Practice 🫂 Self-Relationship 🗣️ Extrovert Ideal Critique 📱 Social Media Criticism 📵 Digital Detox

The Secret Life of You

We would rather shock ourselves than think. A practical guide to the lost skill of solitude.

by Kerri Sackville 2023

3.44

211 ratings

🧘 Solitude Practice 🫂 Self-Relationship 🗣️ Extrovert Ideal Critique 📱 Social Media Criticism 📵 Digital Detox

Facts and Other Lies

by Ed Coper • 2022

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

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🗳️ Political Disinformation 📡 Media Ecosystems 💻 Digital Politics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📖 Media Literacy

Facts and Other Lies

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

by Ed Coper 2022

4.16

242 ratings

🗳️ Political Disinformation 📡 Media Ecosystems 💻 Digital Politics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📖 Media Literacy

The Great Acceleration

by Robert Colvile • 2016

Why everything from politics to dinner is getting faster, and why the middle ground is disappearing.

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165

📈 Social Acceleration 🌊 Information Overload ⏳ Short-Term Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Psychology 💥 Technological Disruption

The Great Acceleration

Why everything from politics to dinner is getting faster, and why the middle ground is disappearing.

by Robert Colvile 2016

3.56

165 ratings

📈 Social Acceleration 🌊 Information Overload ⏳ Short-Term Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Psychology 💥 Technological Disruption

Disruptive Marketing

by Geoffrey Colon • 2016

The old playbook is dead. What growth hackers and data punks know about navigating the new normal.

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🏷️ Digital Marketing 🪴 Growth Hacking 🎭 Hybrid Skill Sets 🧪 Lean Methodology ❤️ Marketing Ethics

Disruptive Marketing

The old playbook is dead. What growth hackers and data punks know about navigating the new normal.

by Geoffrey Colon 2016

3.49

110 ratings

🏷️ Digital Marketing 🪴 Growth Hacking 🎭 Hybrid Skill Sets 🧪 Lean Methodology ❤️ Marketing Ethics

Robin Hood Math

by Noah Giansiracusa • 2025

Algorithms price your insurance, rank your resume, curate your reality. The math that fights back.

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🧮 Algorithmic Literacy 🛡️ Digital Self-Defense 📐 Applied Mathematics 📊 Bayesian Reasoning 📉 Everyday Statistics

Robin Hood Math

Algorithms price your insurance, rank your resume, curate your reality. The math that fights back.

by Noah Giansiracusa 2025

3.91

185 ratings

🧮 Algorithmic Literacy 🛡️ Digital Self-Defense 📐 Applied Mathematics 📊 Bayesian Reasoning 📉 Everyday Statistics

The Age of Extraction

by Tim Wu • 2025

Tech platforms now extract wealth from everyone. History shows where that concentration leads.

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🏗️ Platform Economics ⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🔍 Big Tech Critique 💰 Extractive Capitalism 📊 Surveillance Capitalism

The Age of Extraction

Tech platforms now extract wealth from everyone. History shows where that concentration leads.

by Tim Wu 2025

3.89

1k+ ratings

🏗️ Platform Economics ⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🔍 Big Tech Critique 💰 Extractive Capitalism 📊 Surveillance Capitalism

Attention

by Casey Schwartz • 2020

Adderall promised perfect focus. Her addiction revealed an economy that profits from destroying it.

3.12

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💊 Prescription Stimulants 📱 Digital Distraction 🧠 Trauma And Focus 🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🎰 Behavioral Design

Attention

Adderall promised perfect focus. Her addiction revealed an economy that profits from destroying it.

by Casey Schwartz 2020

3.12

394 ratings

💊 Prescription Stimulants 📱 Digital Distraction 🧠 Trauma And Focus 🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🎰 Behavioral Design

Lifescale

by Brian Solis • 2019

Your focus is under intentional attack. Steps to reclaim attention, creativity and purpose.

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📱 Digital Distraction 🎯 Attention Management 🎨 Creative Fulfillment 🧭 Life Purpose 😊 Positive Psychology

Lifescale

Your focus is under intentional attack. Steps to reclaim attention, creativity and purpose.

by Brian Solis 2019

3.71

284 ratings

📱 Digital Distraction 🎯 Attention Management 🎨 Creative Fulfillment 🧭 Life Purpose 😊 Positive Psychology

Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology

by Edward H. Spence • 2021

We're building superintelligence without a control plan. Stoicism has one.

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🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🤖 Ai Ethics 🎯 Ai Alignment 🏢 Big Tech Critique ⚖️ Tech Regulation

Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology

We're building superintelligence without a control plan. Stoicism has one.

by Edward H. Spence 2021

4.50

2 ratings

🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🤖 Ai Ethics 🎯 Ai Alignment 🏢 Big Tech Critique ⚖️ Tech Regulation

Addicted to Drama

by Scott Lyons • 2023

Chaos can be an addiction: tolerance grows, withdrawal burns, relapse repeats. How to heal it.

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🧸 Developmental Trauma 🔁 Behavioral Addiction 🧠 Nervous System Regulation 🚧 Boundary Setting 🤲 Somatic Psychology

Addicted to Drama

Chaos can be an addiction: tolerance grows, withdrawal burns, relapse repeats. How to heal it.

by Scott Lyons 2023

3.90

250 ratings

🧸 Developmental Trauma 🔁 Behavioral Addiction 🧠 Nervous System Regulation 🚧 Boundary Setting 🤲 Somatic Psychology

The Unplugged Hours

by Hannah Brencher • 2024

She unplugged for a thousand hours. What came back was the life she'd been scrolling past.

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🧘 Digital Detox 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines ✝️ Sabbath Rest 🕯️ Contemplative Christianity 🐢 Slowing Down

The Unplugged Hours

She unplugged for a thousand hours. What came back was the life she'd been scrolling past.

by Hannah Brencher 2024

4.23

2k+ ratings

🧘 Digital Detox 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines ✝️ Sabbath Rest 🕯️ Contemplative Christianity 🐢 Slowing Down

The Atomic Human

by Neil D. Lawrence • 2024

Bleeding, forgetting, doubting: these aren't bugs in the human system. They are the system.

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧠 Cognitive Science 🫂 What Makes Us Human 📡 Information Theory 🦾 Embodied Cognition

The Atomic Human

Bleeding, forgetting, doubting: these aren't bugs in the human system. They are the system.

by Neil D. Lawrence 2024

3.41

197 ratings

🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧠 Cognitive Science 🫂 What Makes Us Human 📡 Information Theory 🦾 Embodied Cognition

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