Contents

Preface: Living Fast and Slow

Acknowledgments

1. Falling in the Fountain

2. Observing Our Online Lives

3. Attention, Emotions, and the Body

4. Exercise 1: Observing Email (or Facebook or Texting . . .)

5. Exercise 2: Focused Email (or Facebook or Texting . . .)

6. Exercise 3: Observing Multitasking

7. Exercise 4: Focused Multitasking

8. Exercise 5: Mindful Unplugging

9. Honing Our Digital Craft

10. Broadening and Deepening the Conversation

Appendix A. Two Attention-Training Practices

Appendix B. A Template for Logging Your Observations

Appendix C. Contemplative Pedagogy

Appendix D. The Mindful Use of Technology

Appendix E. Digital Dependency and Addiction

Notes

Bibliography

Index