Nir Eyal’s previous book Hooked became a must-read for startup founders looking to capture an audience for their product. Eyal’s follow up book, Indistractable, focuses on the strategies to avoid distraction whilst using the apps and services that are designed to capture our attention. Our review and summary covers the main points.

Psychiatrist Dr Mark Rego’s book Frontal Fatigue examines the mental health impact of modern life and modern technology. How can tech usage push the brain’s pre-frontal cortex to exhaustion, what does this mean, and what can we do about it?

A review and summary of Jonathon Haidt’s book “about why it’s so hard for us to get along” that explains how we each have an “intuitive elephant” that usually makes decisions for us.

These books explain the concerns that inspire the humane technology movement, which aims to bring about a world in which people are respected and supported by the tech they use instead of being exploited.

A review and summary of Jaron Lanier’s book on how social media platforms are destroying our individuality and corrupting our society. Four years after the book was written, are these concerns still relevant?

A review and summary of Deep Work, which explains why the skill of working with intense focus is so important in the modern world, and promises to show us how to develop this skill.

A review and summary of Mind Change, a book which makes the case that our use of digital technologies may be changing our brains and our thinking.

The Distraction Trap is a helpful practical guide to the problem of digital distraction.

Futurologist Richard Watson warns of “screenagers” in a book which remains relevant 8 years later.