Screen habits need not come with guilt, the publisher of this book argues. Jay Vidyarthi, whom it calls a leading designer of mindful technology, offers seven strategies for enjoying tech on better terms.

Readical Key Points

• Seven strategies for a mindful relationship with phones and screens, from social media and news to email, games, TV and AI, as the publisher describes it
• A short exercise in each chapter, with strategies the publisher says are backed by scientific research
• 2025 Best Indie Book Award winner, IAN Book of the Year finalist and CBCA finalist, according to the publisher; reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
• Paperback, 206 pages, Still Ape Press, 2025

Vidyarthi writes as a meditator and a technology enthusiast, and the publisher sets the book apart from others in the genre, whose authors mostly want readers to use tech less. His case is that attention can be defended without abandoning the convenience and connection tech offers. Stories and brief exercises look at how apps are designed to hold attention and how readers might set their own boundaries.

Readers who feel worse after scrolling but are not ready to quit, and readers of mindfulness writing, are its audience. Vidyarthi supplies exercises and a way of looking; any change in a reader's screen habits is still theirs to make.

About the Author

His publisher calls Jay Vidyarthi a leading designer of mindful technology, and he has practiced meditation throughout his life, according to the same source.

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