DIGITAL OVERWHELM
DIGITAL OVERWHELM
Why does work often feel overwhelming and pointless?
You know the struggle of post-pandemic, tech-driven chaos. Organizational researcher Craig Mattson doesn’t offer decluttering tips or radical solutions. Instead, he shows how to navigate digital overwhelm by "mode-switching"—changing how you communicate where tech and stress collide.
Digital Overwhelm draws on Digital Overwhelm draws on new theory and ancient wisdom to help you transform the intensities of modern work. Each chapter gives you a workshop to tackle real problems like Zoom fatigue, writing authentic emails, and staying productive. Work doesn’t have to sweep you under, if you learn to ride out the waves.
what it’s about
This book brings forward what you know intuitively, bodily, tacitly when you communicate with others and then advises you how to take that into digital spaces. It’s humbling to realize that you are but one agent in a context made blustery and choppy by coworker choices, administrative policies, client arbitrariness, and technological weirdnesses beyond any one person’s management. But if you can learn to pay attention to modes of communication, and find ways to engage them skillfully, you’ll find digital balance.
— From Digital Overwhelm