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“One thing I've learned being around Gary for the last decade is that when he sees new consumer trends or new best practices in marketing, people should listen and act on them.” — Michael Rubin, CEO of Fanatics In his seventh business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor...

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and distracted by social media? Do you find yourself spending hours scrolling through your feed without even realizing it? If so, it may be time to take a break and reconnect with the world around you. Introducing 30 Days Without Social Media, a mindfulness workbook designed to help you break free from the grips of social media addiction. Over the course of 30 days, you'll learn practical mindfulness techniques and strategies to help you reduce your dependence on social media and regain control of your time and attention. Each day, you'll be guided ...

You ask your AI for a "quick" answer. You tell your phone to "remind you." You follow the GPS dot. With each click, you are making an invisible trade: convenience for cognition. You are accumulating Cognitive Debt. This book is not a luddite's manifesto—it is an evidence-based diagnosis of a problem we all feel. We are trading our ability to think, remember, and create in exchange for the seamless, friction-free "help" of our machines. The cost? A measurable decline in our most essential human faculties. Drawing on stunning new research from MIT, Harvard, and leading neuroscience labs, ...

STOP GUESSING. START ENGINEERING. LEARN THE LAWS OF SOCIAL MEDIA Do you ever wonder why a 15-second video of someone dancing gets 10 million views, while your carefully edited masterpiece gets 50? Most people think going viral is luck. They treat the Creator Economy like a lottery ticket. They are wrong. Just as gravity pulls you down—regardless of whether you "believe" in it—the digital world operates on unbreakable laws of human psychology, data science, and attention economics. Social Media Physics strips away the myths of "influencer culture" and reveals the hard science underneath....

Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.

Over decades of research and work with thousands of families, Russell A. Barkley has become a leading authority on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kids and teens. He has learned what a huge difference parents can make in supporting their children's success - as well as how overwhelming it can be. This concise guide presents 12 key parenting principles for dealing with common behavioral, emotional, and school challenges.

The Economics of Attention: How Your Time Is Being Sold We’re living in a new kind of economy one that doesn’t run on oil, gold, or even money. It runs on attention. Every scroll, every click, every second you spend online is part of a massive, hidden system the attention economy where your time is the most valuable currency, and you’re being sold without even knowing it. Big tech, media companies, influencers, advertisers they’re all in the same game: capturing and monetizing your time. But here’s the truth no one tells you in this economy, you’re not the customer… you’re ...

Whether you're a young adult who is stalled on the journey to independence or a concerned parent still sharing the family nest, this compassionate book is for you. Providing a fresh perspective on the causes of failure to launch, the expert authors present a 10-step plan that helps grown kids and parents work together to achieve liftoff.

Freedom from Social Media Addiction is a guided hypnosis session designed to help you retrain your attention and rebuild your peace of mind. Through soothing voice guidance, subconscious re-patterning, and carefully layered sound design, you’ll begin to reclaim your focus and rediscover satisfaction in the real world—right where you are.

In 2012, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was just a handful of geeks working out of a scrappy four-bedroom apartment in Beijing. Today, it is the world’s fastest-growing tech behemoth worth in excess of $100 billion, unrecognizable from its humble beginnings.

Attention is currency—and you're leaving money on the table. In a world where scrolling is instinct and distraction is everywhere, only one thing cuts through: content that connects fast and sells without feeling salesy. Selling in the Attention Economy is the practical, story-driven guide to turning your social media presence into a consistent stream of affiliate income. Whether you're a beginner or already posting links that no one clicks, this book gives you the strategy you’ve been missing. Discover how to: Craft one-second hooks that stop the scroll and spark curiosity Pick the ...

A must-read action plan to reclaim your focus, direct your attention, and save your mind in an era of endless distraction. Our brains are wired for focus. We are designed for it, we crave it, and yet in our current age of overload, we often feel like our minds are bolting from one distraction to...

What if traffic wasn’t random… but inevitable? Every day, businesses fight for attention—posting more, spending more, and working harder—yet most never break through. A few, however, trigger something different. Their content spreads. Their message multiplies. Their visibility explodes. That’s not luck. That’s an avalanche. Viral Traffic Avalanche reveals how massive exposure is actually built—not through gimmicks, hacks, or fleeting trends, but through repeatable systems that turn attention into momentum and momentum into dominance. This book shows you how viral traffic ...

Seeking Attention explores the essential but elusive nature of attention through a fresh lens. Drawing inspiration from Simone Weil's assertion that "attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity," this audiobook brings attention into focus through a novel collection of short "portraits" that each examine how archetypal figures—like the detective, the fan, the therapist, the parent, and the lover—engage with attention in unique ways.

Does toxic pollution cause attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? What about screen use? Are alternative treatments worth exploring? Can dietary changes help? From leading ADHD researcher Joel T. Nigg, this book presents exciting treatment advances grounded in the new science of epigenetics - how genes and the environment interact. Distinguishing unsupported, even dangerous, approaches from bona fide breakthroughs, Dr. Nigg describes specific lifestyle changes that have been proven to support the developing brain.

In a world where every idle moment is an invitation to refresh the feed, our attention has become the most valuable commodity on Earth. The Age of Doomscroll unpacks how the attention economy quietly rewired our brains, turning boredom into a glitch, outrage into a business model, and our most intimate thoughts into data points to be mined. This isn’t just about “too much screen time”—it’s about how entire platforms are engineered to keep you hooked, anxious, and endlessly scrolling. Blending pop sociology, cultural criticism, and internet-native humor, this book traces how ...

The Marketplace of Selves is not a manifesto. It is a mirror. In a world where attention has become currency and expression has become labor, most people adapt quietly. They learn what travels, what stalls, and what disappears—often without noticing how those lessons reshape how they speak, feel, and even think. This book explores what happens when visibility is no longer neutral, when metrics act like gravity, and when certain emotions become safer to show than others. It examines how performance becomes internalized, how agreement replaces honesty, and how people begin rehearsing for ...

As our ability to pay attention in a world of distractions vanishes, it's no wonder that our ability to be heard and understood - to convey our messages - is also threatened. Whether working with our teams and customers or communicating with our families and friends, it is increasingly difficult to break through the digital devices that get in the way of communication.

Your focus is no longer your own—it’s for sale. Every ping, every scroll, every irresistible notification is not an accident. It’s the product of a trillion-dollar marketplace where your attention is the hottest commodity. In Attention and the Economy of Distraction, Alex Whitman takes you behind the curtain of the modern economy that trades your time, manipulates your thoughts, and profits from every glance you give your screen. Drawing on history, psychology, and cutting-edge research, Whitman shows how the battle for attention moved from newspapers and television to smartphones and...

Why does a single "like" feel like a reward, and why does anger travel faster than truth? The Social Machine pulls open the casing on the platforms that now steer public life. Clear, classroom-friendly, and a little wry, JD Arden traces the shift from message boards to personalized feeds, shows how tiny design choices become global incentives, and explains the real mechanics behind virality, misinformation, and online influence. You’ll get short case studies, plain analogies, and practical takeaways you can use today: how algorithms decide what you see, how creators win attention, and ...