Stolen Focus review by Josh

Stolen Focus suffers, ironically, from a lack of focus. When the author mentioned at the end that he was friends with Naomi Klein I was not surprised. Fans of her work will likely enjoy this book. I’m not a fan of her work.

Three stars because there are glimmers of very interesting and important stuff here. Hari is, I think, correct tech has seriously damaged the human ability to focus and that is largely intrinsic to the business model of companies like Google. He interviewed a number of interesting people in writing (roughly 50% of sentences start with some variation on “[expert] told me”).

Overall, I spent about 12 hours on this book though, and I would like 8 of them back.