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Must-Have Resources for Tech Balance and Well-Being

By 25 August 2024No Comments

Empower your digital well-being with expert-recommended websites and transformative books that guide intentional technology use


Center for Humane Technology

Tristan Harris

Tristan Harris, former Google Design Ethicist, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology, offers these family guidelines with the hope that they will help parents navigate the use of technology at home and in school.

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Irresistible

Adam Alter

In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioural addiction and explains why so many of today’s products are irresistible. And explains how we can harness addictive products for the good.

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Digital minimalism

Cal Newport

It explores the concept of digital minimalism and offers strategies for managing technology use in a way that promotes a more intentional and fulfilling life.

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Willpower

Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Roy Baumeister, one of the world’s most esteemed and influential psychologists, and journalist John Tierney, turn this notion on its head. They show us that willpower is like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice and improved over time.

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iGEN: The smartphone Generation

Jean M. Twenge

A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen –the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later– are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted

Cal Newport

The book explores the concept of “deep work,” which Newport defines as the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task.

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Sources

Irresistible – Adam Alter
Willpower – Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney
Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
iGen: The Smartphone Generation – Jean M. Twenge
Deep Work – Cal Newport

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