Hamlet's Black Berry by William T. Powers

A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

A blend of cultural history, personal memoir and practical philosophy that diagnoses how smartphones and always-on communication fragment attention and diminish depth of thought, and that draws on examples from literature, philosophy and the author’s own experiments with unplugging to propose simple, humane practices—scheduled disconnection, attention rituals and boundary-setting—to reclaim focus, richer conversation and a more deliberate life in the digital age.

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