The Distraction Addiction
Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul

In "The Shallows", a recent book covering similar territory, Nicholas Carr posits that the internet is making us dumb. And not just dumber, but less able to concentrate and focus. But if I recall from reading it, there were no solutions beyond, perhaps, the old Hee Haw punch line - "Don't do that!"......more

I received this book for free from the Goodreads first-read giveaway. I gave this book 4 stars because I didn't want to discourage people from reading it. For me personally it was around 2 stars. Reason being I don't have the information overload that this book is trying to help people overcome. I d......more

I often struggle with my writing because I am addicted to facebook, a number of blogs, and other tantalizing aspects of the internet. I read this book in order to attempt to address these technological distractions, and I found it useful in many ways. The opening chapters on zenware directed me to a......more

Well, I got about three quarters through this before putting it down for good. Guiltily, since this was my pick for my new book club! Oops. I got pretty much nothing out of it: I think if you've spent more than twenty minutes of your life ever thinking about your over-reliance on computers, you have......more

I read this book on Blinkist so I don’t waste many time for reading this book. I simply find that the way to focus and stay attention to your business is that you should walking like Charles Darwin or doing the meditation like the monk to have a good attention and memory.......more