March 9, 2025 • 5 mins
In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. Today, Tom looks at three books defending the mind against the digital world’s age of attention distractions.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen
Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyler
Resources:
How human technology is changing human experience. By Jane Shaw in the FT
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