Tech Cleanse™
Put down your phone, interact more, and enrich your life.
Written by a lifelong technologist who adores his phone, Tech Cleanse is a short read you can finish in an evening. It mixes honest observation and humor with a structured, realistic plan, so you can enjoy your devices more by needing them less.
Cleanse™
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What’s in the book
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A Dare
A poem by the author’s daughter, written at age ten, that throws down the gauntlet: power down, and see what you do instead.
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Introduction
A train ride, a girl who never looks up, and a lifelong tech lover’s realization, sharpened at a silent meditation retreat, that being more in control of our devices is worth it, and easier than it sounds.
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Chapter 1: Screen-Locked Behaviors
The funny, uncomfortable truths: feeling naked without your phone, the hunt for outlets, the breakfast-table scroll, sidewalk “phone zombies,” the dinner-date “slow drop,” and the game of phone stacking.
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Chapter 2: Before the Phone-Obsessed
A brisk tour from ancient symbols and wax-sealed letters to the telegraph, switchboards, pagers, flip phones, and the smartphone, and why remembering life before it matters.
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Chapter 3: The Tech Cleanse
The heart of the book: a cumulative ten-day structure you can fit into a real job and a real life, from scheduling email to writing letters to finding your way without a map.
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Conclusion: Little Habits Lead to Great Practices
How small, mindful habits ripple outward, and what you might do with all the time you get back.
“I love my phone; I am attached to it more than anything else in my life. I rely on it to keep me connected, situated, up to date, aware, and entertained. Sadly I feel, it gets more attention from me than any one person in my life.”
From the Introduction. © Jesse Seaver. All rights reserved.
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