My TechWise Life, Andy Crouch
My TechWise Life, Andy Crouch
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My Tech-Wise Life
Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices

Author: Andy Crouch, Amy Crouch

Narrator: David Cochran Heath, Rachel L. Jacobs

Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2021

Synopsis

While most of her peers were obsessed with their iPhones, Instagramming and Snapchatting their lives, and glued to streaming TV, nineteen-year-old Amy Crouch was growing up with minimal technology. In My Tech-Wise Life, she and her father, Andy Crouch, share how intentional and controlled use of modern devices, apps, and services has helped her avoid many of the negative experiences of her peers and cultivate positive experiences interacting with the real world.

With writing that connects on a teen-to-teen level, Amy and Andy unpack tech temptations—such as the temptation to distract ourselves from any potentially boring or awkward situation, or to stay up-to-date with every notification and trend—and then offer antidotes that lead to more patience, wisdom, honesty, and wonder in life.

If you're in high school or college and devices and social media are affecting your friendships and family life, your sense of self-worth, or even how well you think you know yourself, this book will help you reevaluate your relationship with technology—and renew your relationship with the world around you.

About Andy Crouch

Andy Crouch is editorial director for The Christian Vision Project at Christianity Today International and executive producer of Where Faith and Culture Meet, a series of short documentary films on Christians creating "a counterculture for the common good." He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission's IJM Institute. His writing has appeared in several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh on May 10, 2021

As a followup to the amazing Tech-Wise family, I was eager to read this. That little red book has helped me think about technology from a biblical perspective and integrated thinking with practice. It was not prescriptive as in "you must do this and can't do that" but gave a picture of how one famil......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 25, 2021

My boyfriend and I have talked about how we want to handle technology in our future. Because of our conversations, I realized how I've fallen into a lot of bad tech habits. I grew up in a tech-wise family, but I've let a lot of the habits of my younger years slide. While this book is for a younger au......more

Goodreads review by Kelvino on August 24, 2023

Another cute small writer book! It's funny to imagine that this author is so close to my age, or was my age at the time of writing this book actually. I feel like there's not much talk about using technology wisely anymore. At least, I heard it a lot more when I was younger, being careful about all......more

Goodreads review by Jake on January 16, 2021

With the digital age here to stay, the author brings an honest presentation of how we must be “tech wise”. Filled with ways to be intentional with media and how to extract its benefits while not becoming consumed by tech.......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on November 04, 2022

I’m not in the age-targeted audience of this book and as such many of the correlations weren’t as relevant as they might have been when I was younger. I grew up as a low-tech kid and frankly loved it. I definitely appreciate the benefits of technology, but there certainly are detriments. Becoming mor......more

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