David M. Levy
Mindful Tech
How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives
Yale UP, 2016
Aperçu
To improve your health, concentration and time management, control your digital media use.
Recommendation
David M. Levy, a professor and former Silicon Valley technology staffer, shows you how to slow down your digital life and connect mindfully. He presents a series of exercises to help you develop greater awareness of your use of digital media and to cultivate healthier, more productive habits. By observing and paying attention to your mind and body when you use email and other digital applications, you can identify potential triggers of distraction or distress. Levy helps you make appropriate changes and his compelling anecdotes might echo your experiences with email, texting and multitasking. getAbstract recommends Levy’s manual to busy people who seek calmness and better methods for using digital media.
Summary
About the Author
Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington David M. Levy also wrote Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age.
Comment on this summary
I totally agree with the author that we should cultivate other habits such as exercises and hobbies that take us away from digital devices, minimize their usage and appreciate every moment of our life.
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