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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2025-11-20 · 48 min · 8,386 words

1112: How to Beat Digital Exhaustion and Reclaim Your Energy with Paul Leonardi

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Technology is not the problem. It's how we use it, how we orient to it that it really is. But our devices are demanding more and more switches and attention from us all the time across different applications. applications across different areas of work, across different arenas of our life, right? From work to home and et cetera.

And we're just not made for those rapid switches in connection and disconnection that technologies create for us. That's Dr. Paul Leonardi. He's an award-winning professor of technology management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in helping organizations take advantage of new technologies while defeating digital exhaustion.

His new book, Digital Exhaustion, Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life, shares strategies on how to transform your relationship with your devices and build stronger connections both in and out of the digital world. So you'll learn one, the two hidden forces behind your digital exhaustion. Two, simple ways to reduce attention switching, and three, how to reclaim your energy from your devices. I'm Pete McKaitis. This is how to be awesome at your job.

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