Your Happiness Was Hacked
Author | : Vivek Wadhwa |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-07-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789353051624 |
ISBN-13 | : 9353051622 |
Rating | : 4/5 (622 Downloads) |
Download or read book Your Happiness Was Hacked written by Vivek Wadhwa and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've become a tribe of tech addicts, and it's not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families and friendships. Swipe-driven apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we email on an average of seventy-seven times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens contributes to epidemic sleep deprivation. But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that it plays and could play in our lives. This profound and timely book turns personal observation into a handy guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.