Dont Unplug, Chris Dancy
Dont Unplug, Chris Dancy
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Don't Unplug
How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too

Author: Chris Dancy

Narrator: Chris Dancy

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2018


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

In Don't Unplug, Chris Dancy, the world's most connected person, inspires listeners with practical advice to live a happier and healthier life using technology.

In 2002, Chris Dancy was overweight, unemployed, and addicted to technology. He chain-smoked cigarettes, popped pills, and was angry and depressed. But when he discovered that his mother kept a record of almost every detail of his childhood, an idea began to form. Could knowing the status of every aspect of his body and how his lifestyle affected his health help him learn to take care of himself? By harnessing the story of his life, could he learn to harness his own bad habits?

With a little tech know-how combined with a healthy dose of reality, every app, sensor, and data point in Dancy's life was turned upside down and examined. Now he's sharing what he knows. That knowledge includes the fact that changing the color of his credit card helps him to use it less often, and that nostalgia is a trigger for gratitude for him.

A modern-day story of rebirth and redemption, Chris' wisdom and insight will show listeners how to improve their lives by paying attention to the relationship between how we move, what we eat, who we spend time with, and how it all makes us feel. But Chris has done all the hard work: Don't Unplug shows us how we too can transform our lives.

About Chris Dancy

CHRIS DANCY is touted as the “Most Connected Man on Earth.” For 25 years, Dancy has served in leadership within technology and healthcare, specializing in the intersection of the two. He has been featured on Showtime, Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC, Fox News, and Wired. Corporations that have hired him to speak about the future of tech and health include Microsoft, Fitbit, and Humana. He divides his time between Nashville, TN, and New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Monica

This book is definitely not my cup of tea! I found the authors presentation style to be shallow and self involved. He seems to lack awareness of how he affected people around him. He writes about creating false personas online to get attention and cause people to like him as if that is business as u......more

Goodreads review by Peter

I read this over a weekend. Love the story Chris is telling about how he used technology to get insight in his life and behaviours. The book is divided in topics that pull you in to read how he started to understand certain elements. I knew already a bit about Chris' story, but this made it all come......more

Goodreads review by Naum

Scattershot in focus, at least in my reading -- didn't know if this was an autobiography or advocacy in embracing surveillance capitalism to further your own personal ends. I reckon it is a fusion of both.......more

Goodreads review by Tony

Chris Dancy's book Don't Unplug is very timely for many reasons. The amount of data and access to the Internet we have literally in the palm of our hands can be overwhelming. Chris' book takes us on a journey. While on this journey he wants us to know that we should not unplug, that our devices and......more