DoNotDisturb, Jedediah Bila
DoNotDisturb, Jedediah Bila
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#DoNotDisturb
How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life

Author: Jedediah Bila

Narrator: Jedediah Bila

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/09/2018


Synopsis

Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you’ve wasted the time you had set aside for more important things? Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive Compulsive Tech Disorder, and she did it without throwing away her devices.It's time to switch on airplane mode and settle into Jedediah Bila’s #DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life.In this timely, entertaining and inspiring book, Jedediah Bila chronicles her chaotic, confusing, and all-consuming love-hate relationship with - her cell phone. Stepping back from the whirlwind of texting, social media, and an endless sea of apps, Bila questions how our relationships, character, and sanity have suffered from our deep dive into the digital abyss. Exploring the toll that tech addiction took on her life, Bila reveals her missteps and mistakes, including several upending, life-altering months swirling in an ex-boyfriend’s cell-phone-enabled double life, and how a low-tech millennial later stole her heart.Travel with Jedediah through the embarrassing and catastrophic consequences of Ménage-a-Tech relationships, social media's Perception Deception, and the One-Potato-Chip-Problem of trying to resist Silicon Valley's hypnotic, slot-machine software designed to lure you in. Bila reveals how she navigated away from an unhealthy, oversaturated diet of tech junk food to striking just the right balance with technology to let her unplugged, real-life moments take charge. In #DoNotDisturb, Bila applies her trademark no-nonsense, common-sense, personal responsibility and accountability-centered approach, warning us that if we don’t stop acting like robots, our very humanity is at stake.   Through warm anecdotes and cold, hard truths, Bila reveals how she pulled her way out of the tech fog to keep her eyes focused on the life right in front of her. And how you can too.

About Jedediah Bila

Jedediah Bila is a two-time Emmy-nominated television host. She was co-host of the historic Season 20 of ABC’s The View and hosted the Lifetime special Abby Tells All in July of 2017. Prior to joining The View, Bila regularly co-hosted Fox News’ Outnumbered and The Five, and was a Contributor on a wide range of Fox News and Fox Business programming. She has a Master’s degree from Columbia University and lives in New York City.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on July 25, 2019

I grew up around technology; before everyone was glued to their phones, I spent many an hour playing computer/video games or watching television. If I wasn't doing that, I was reading magazines or manuals about my devices and games, or researching my favorite shows and stars online. Now that tech add......more

Goodreads review by Beverly on January 26, 2019

I found it enjoyable and beneficial, primarily because most of the literature that is easily found is about how digital devices are affecting young people, when the effects on adults are just as worrisome. I enjoyed some of her personal stories, but halfway in it was getting repetitive—rehashing the......more

Goodreads review by Erdenezaya on November 21, 2021

Life 2.0 орчиндоо амьдарч буй хүмүүст хэлэхэд хүнд биеэр мэдрэх, гараар тэмтэрч үзэх мэдрэмж зайлшгүй хэрэгтэй. Утсаа тавиад бодит амьдралаа мэдрэхэд цаг хугацаагаа зориулаарай. Яагаад гэдгийг энэ номноос мэдэж болно.......more

Goodreads review by Arthy on March 03, 2019

The author brings out the simplicity of life that is overtaken by technology these days. The impacts of smart phone and social media, positive and negative, are well known to most of us. However, sometimes technology wins over human will power. The author talks about her journey of regaining control......more

Goodreads review by Chelle on October 31, 2018

I completely agree that we are all too reliant on our phones and they have not made us happier. She does a great job explaining how we are missing out on life because we are looking down at our phones but does very little to explain how she ghosted her phone and how it's made her a happier person.......more