![]() ![]() Hopefully, that readable style means more people will dive into this vital exposé on lack of focus. But Hari writes in a more approachable way than Zuboff. Many of their names were familiar to me from Zuboff’s book and the Netflix documentary. ![]() Then he interviews people who specifically devised those algorithms to distract us many times a minute. I read it in 2020, around the time I also watched The Social Dilemma.Īs Hari tells personal stories, he explains the effects of algorithm-driven life on our attention spans and so much more. Shoshana Zuboff coins this term in her chilling but academic book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. His topics have society-wide relevance and are an important call to action for all of us.įor example, he writes extensively about the methods employed by surveillance capitalists that force our attention to constantly fracture. While Stolen Focus does some of that, Hari predominately offers deeper reporting on the causes of our degrading focus. I thought Hari would primarily provide specific, actionable strategies. I read Johann Hari’s new book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention-And How to Think Deeply Again, to improve my focus. ![]()
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