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Master How to Use a Simple App to Create Actionable To-Do Lists will help you rethink your to-do lists. It's easy to begin each day with a lengthy list of tasks without a clear direction of what to focus on first. The truth Most to-do lists are a distraction that often cause you to procrastinate on important tasks. Todoist is different because it’s specifically designed help you manage all your day-to-day tasks—even if you have to juggle dozens of projects.Todoist has a simple design that allows you to start using it within the first five minutes of downloading the app. But it’s flexible enough to manage sophisticated projects that involve numerous steps and multiple team members. In Master Todoist, not only will you get a detailed walkthrough of the app’s features, you will also discover many strategies that allow you to focus on the tasks that truly matter.

Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans. In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. Though these miraculous products melt the miles that separate people across the globe, their extraordinary and sometimes damaging magnetism is no accident. The companies that design these products tweak them over time until they become almost impossible to resist. By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, Alter explains how we can harness addictive products for the good—to improve how we communicate with each other, spend and save our money, and set boundaries between work and play—and how we can mitigate their most damaging effects on our well-being, and the health and happiness of our children.

The Internet brings us incredible new opportunities, but also chilling new risks. Mikko Hypponen has spent 30 years investigating the dark sides of the net: online crime, data leaks, security vulnerabilities and online espionage. Through examples and case studies, he investigates how we got here and where are we going next. This book is an insider's look into how the Internet changed the world for the better and for the worse. It is about the internet and us. The internet has changed from a technical curiosity to a seamless part of our everyday life. Eventually it will become invisible; something we take for granted and assume to be available always and everywhere. This is what happened with the electricity grid. This book also explores the things that threaten the future of the internet: organized online crime gangs, governmental surveillance and censorship, and the fight over control of the internet. It also looks at how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate on the internet, how money became data and the myriad, often surprising impacts that occur when we all carry a supercomputer in our pockets.

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity. Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society—if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web’s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one’s presence anonymous) that have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences. What’s more, these designs quickly became “locked in,” a permanent part of the web’s very structure. Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. Lanier also shows: How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class; How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologists Why a new humanistic technology is necessary. Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.

Tietosi ovat haluttua kauppatavaraa. Suojaa tietosi, suojaat itsesi. Kirja opettaa digiajan tärkeimmät kansalaistaidot: täydellinen opas oman yksityisyytesi suojaamiseen. Tietosuojamurrot ovat herättäneet ihmiset ymmärtämään terveys- ja muiden henkilökohtaisten tietojensa arvon ja havahduttaneet meidät huomaamaan, mitä seurauksia henkilötietojen päätymisellä vääriin käsiin voi pahimmillaan olla. Kirja kertoo, mitä henkilötietoja meistä kerätään, miten niitä käsitellään ja mitä jokaisen tulisi tietää omien henkilötietojensa suojaamisesta. Älypuhelimet ja sosiaalinen media ovat mainioita arjen apuvälineitä, mutta niihin sisältyy myös suuria riskejä. Kirja neuvoo, miten voi suojautua verkkopalvelujen urkinnalta sekä älypuhelimen vakoilulta, joka pahimmillaan johtaa vainoamiseen ja digitaaliseen väkivaltaan. Tietokirjailija, tietotekniikka-asiantuntija ja kolumnisti Petteri Järvinen (s. 1962) on kirjoittanut yli kolmekymmentä kirjaa tietotekniikasta ja tietoturvasta. Pituus: 9 tuntia 43 min.