Recommendations you can check.
by Johann Hari, 2022
Who uses, recommends or left Stolen Focus, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
In this book, Hari uncovers the many forces that are preying on our ability to pay attention and focus, and he offers tools, both individual and collective, that can help us to reclaim it.
The Growth Equation's annual reading list; entries from the "Brad's Picks" section (Amazon affiliate links)
2022-11-23·thegrowtheq.com ↗
I love this book because it gives some fantastic advice about how to begin to disconnect in your personal life. But it also looks at the bigger picture, and shows that Big Tech has addicted us in the same way that Big Tobacco did in the past.
Pump Club newsletter's Book of the Month pick; the page shows no date. (undated page)
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.