Pretentious, inconsistent and unpragmatic. Four Thousand Weeks is a much better philosophical self help book, while Stolen Focus is a much better deep dive on the technology industry. This occupies a fluffy area in the middle, where the only practical advice given is to start birdwatching.

There are glimmers of interesting points about the impact of social media on activism and how the attention economy disproportionately affects different groups, but that is overshadowed by the rest. There are half baked ideas throughout, e.g. bioregionalism - given half a page of explanation before she strays off into waffle again. Frequent diversions to talk about modern and performance art honestly alienate all but those that are fully immersed in that sphere (that is not inherent to the topic - it is her tone that makes it unrelatable). Overall an unsatisfying read with little to take away from it.