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Tech Addiction

Interruptions Are Inevitable, but With These Strategies, You Can Quickly Regain Focus
Focus

Interruptions Are Inevitable, but With These Strategies, You Can Quickly Regain Focus

The ability to get your mind swiftly back on the project at hand is the next best thing to not being interrupted in the first place.
John Rampton | 4 min read
Increasing Employee Engagement Is About Un-Disengaging Your Workforce

Increasing Employee Engagement Is About Un-Disengaging Your Workforce

Limiting emails and phone usage might be the smartest thing you ever do for your company.
Dan Dowling | 7 min read
4 Ways to Break Your Phone Addiction So You Can Focus on What Really Matters

4 Ways to Break Your Phone Addiction So You Can Focus on What Really Matters

Smartphones are a strong candidate for the most alluring distraction of all time, but you can resist and win back your life.
Nate Klemp | 6 min read
3 Steps to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Self-Improvement Engine

3 Steps to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Self-Improvement Engine

Science shows that your IQ is lower when your smartphone is near, but not when you use these three steps.
Dan Dowling | 5 min read
How This Tech Pioneer Hacked Her Way to Happiness

How This Tech Pioneer Hacked Her Way to Happiness

Apple's first user evangelist, Ellen Petry Leanse, reveals her top tools to overcome tech distraction so we can take charge of what matters most.
Kristen Aldridge | 1 min read

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New controls, expected in Android P, are part of Google's new 'digital wellbeing' initiative, which the company unveiled at Google I/O on Tuesday.
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These Software Design Features Are Breaking Our Brains and Businesses -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
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The students are urging Apple to add an 'Essential Mode' to iPhones that would offer 'just calls, texts and photos.'
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Technology Might Be Killing Us, But It Doesn't Have to Be That Way

It's time for the tech industry to step up.
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The Center for Humane Technology will focus its efforts on young users, first with a public school ad campaign on the harmful effects of tech and social media.
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The 'Father of the iPod' Says Tech Addiction Would Worry Steve Jobs if he Were Alive Today
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What's Under the Tree For Your Preteen This Christmas? If It's Technology, Exercise Caution.
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What's Under the Tree For Your Preteen This Christmas? If It's Technology, Exercise Caution.

Your plan to introduce new technology to your children may not be setting them up for success, even if they're over (the generally accepted age of) 13.
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You Could be Having a Digital Mental Health Crisis Without Realizing It
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15 Signs You Need a Social-Media Cleanse
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15 Signs You Need a Social-Media Cleanse

Thinking in pithy Facebook posts? You don't need continual affirmation to know you're OK. A break from the online chatter could be just the thing to create a healthier you.
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