How to Turn Off Your Addiction to Technology
After doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of videos, and gradually shifting my own life, I present a brief but deep overview on this issue, and how we can think about freeing ourselves from our tech.
We’ll go into the what, why, and how of this addiction, and then look at strategies that will be useful methodologies for shifting our behaviours and habits. I hope to join you in the course very soon.
Introduction: My Story
FREE PREVIEWWe're Addicted, Admit It
The Medium Is The Message
Layers of Attention
Working Out How We're Addicted
Avoidance of Discomfort
Stress & Isolation - how tech promises social reward but underdelivers
Misattribution of the problem - Cruel Optimism and how capitalism promises the answer and doesn’t deliver
Limitations of the answer offered by tech
A Solution
Environment Design
Community + Conviviality
Conclusion: Your Brain As A Plant
These are some of the people who's books and works I drew on as inspiration for the design and content of this course.
Johan Hari, Author of Stolen Focus
James Clear, Author of Atomic Habits
Nir Eyal, author of Indistractible
Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author
Victor Frankl. Psychiatrist & Author
Ivan Illich, Philosopher and social critic
Oliver Burkeman, Author of 4000 Weeks
Erving Goffman, Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Shoshanna Zuzoff, Author of Surveillance Capitalism
Lauren Berlant, Scholar, Cultural Theorist, and Author