The Art Of Bitfulness, Nandan Nilekani
The Art Of Bitfulness, Nandan Nilekani
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The Art Of Bitfulness
Keeping Calm in the Digital World

Author: Nandan Nilekani, Tanuj Bhojwani

Narrator: Anuj Datta

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Digital is inevitable. Disconnecting is impractical. The Art of Bitfulness is a book on how to live with our devices, not how to live without them.What is Bitfulness?Bitfulness is being effortlessly mindful of your technology.In this short, practical book, Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani describe a framework to tune out the overwhelming noise of the internet. They empower you with tools to take back your time, attention and privacy from those who want to capture and sell it. They reveal their own personal systems, and how they stay on top of a constant flow of information. This book doesn't believe our excessive screen time usage is a personal failing. The internet creates winner-take-all market conditions, which in turn create an attentional race to the bottom. It doesn't have to be this way.The book covers how we, as a collective, can take back control of our future. The authors even analyse the promise of web3 & cryptocurrencies to see where that alternative will take us.The reason to read this book is simple: If you don't design your technology around your life, someone else will design your life around their technology.'Unlike many other books written about this toxic relationship, however, this one is by two people who love technology very much and are fascinated by its power to do good-and yet, are cognizant of the ways in which technology can overwhelm us.'Shrabonti Bagchi, HT Mint

About The Author

NANDAN NILEKANI is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited. He was Founding Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a Cabinet Minister rank, from 2009-2014. Most recently, Nandan has cofounded and is Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner-centric, technology-based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children. Nilekani was born in Bengaluru. In 2005, he received the Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan and named Businessman of the year by Forbes Asia. TIME magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2009. He also received the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic & Business Innovation 2017. He is the author of Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century and the co-author of Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations with Viral Shah.TANUJ BHOJWANI is a storyteller who codes. He holds a chemical engineering degree from IIT Bombay. He also attended Ashoka University and studied liberal arts at the Young India Fellowship. His training in the sciences and humanities allows him to craft narratives about technology that are accessible without sacrificing technical depth. As a Fellow at iSPIRT Foundation, Tanuj works on policy issues related to digital identity, payments, data protection and drones. Prior to iSPIRT, Tanuj has been a VC and an entrepreneur. When not reading or writing, Tanuj spends his time obsessing over board games, digital productivity systems and magic. He lives and works in Bengaluru.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mubeen on February 04, 2022

Truth be told there is a lot of content out there warning against too much use of social media and digital devices. But most of it focusses on how social media is evil and how we need to detoxify ourselves. This book is unique because is focuses more on us, the reader, how our behavior and psycholog......more

Goodreads review by Jayati on November 03, 2022

A wonderful book, which is a need of the hour for all of us, both individually and collectively. It discusses how technology should be such that we use it and not such that it uses us. Overall, the book is structured quite well-- firstly the core problem of technology and its effects are discussed, n......more

Goodreads review by Honey & Anjali on April 21, 2022

I don't read self-help books that often but when I came across this book by Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani I had to read it. We live in a world where all of our time is consumed by us indulging in the usage of multiple devices. For example, I am writing this review on a device and you're reading......more

Goodreads review by Aman on December 30, 2024

Let me start with some context. Growing up, I was a heavy internet user. I still remember getting my first iPhone in 2010, followed by an iPad soon after. Over the years, I began consuming more and more products and services on my phone, tablet, PlayStation, TV, and other devices—primarily playing g......more

Goodreads review by Jitark on January 13, 2024

This book is not anti-tech, it is pro-you. The above sentence is one my favourites in the book. The authors start with the different world that we are living in currently from that of what it was about two to three decades ago. Given the gadgets that surround us and the digital world that we live in,......more

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