
Digital Exhaustion
Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life
Author: Paul Leonardi
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 10/07/2025
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Technology & Engineering, Social Aspects
Includes:
Bonus Material
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Synopsis
Unplugging is not a long-term solution for the stress caused by technology. If you want to keep your job, participate in society, and maintain meaningful relationships, you can’t escape your many apps and devices.
Paul Leonardi maps out an achievable path to reducing your digital exhaustion, drawing on extensive research to show how real people can use technology in healthy ways. These are realistic approaches that won’t fragment your attention and deplete your cognitive and emotional reserves. Many of the changes are simple yet surprisingly effective, like waiting longer to respond, making sure you’re using the right tool for your task, and being more conscious of the time and energy we allocate to our devices. He also explains the emotional traps that lead us into dysfunctional relationships with our technology, and how to escape them.
With Leonardi as your guide, you can build stronger connections, be more creative and productive, and create the mental space to reclaim your energy and your life.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing graphs, charts, and the Guide to Choosing Which Rules to Use When.

