By Dr Kristy Goodwin, Neuro-Performance Scientist
Dear Digital,
We Need to Talk.
A neuroscience backed guide to using technology in ways your Human Operating System can actually sustain.
Winner, 2023 Australian Business Book of the Year, Technology category.
It's time for a new operating system
Why working with your biological markers, your chronotype and ultradian rhythm, changes how much you get done and how it feels to do it.
Why screen time carries a measurable cost to your focus and energy, and the specific micro habits that offset it.
The mechanism behind digital eye strain and digital dementia, and what to do before it compounds.
Our brains were never designed to be always on, rarely focused, and never recovered. Yet this is how most of us now use technology, in ways that are fundamentally incompatible with our Human Operating System (our hOS), the biological architecture that governs how we think, focus, regulate stress and recover.
In Dear Digital, We Need to Talk, I map the biology first and the behaviour second. The demands of a hyperconnected day exceed what any nervous system was built to sustain, and no amount of discipline changes that.
It was never a willpower problem.
You'll get a menu of research based micro habits you can apply to your digital behaviour, at work and at home, built to work with your biological blueprint instead of against it.
Your stress response was never built for this many inputs.
01 / The mismatch
Alerts, notifications, multi tasking, video calls back to back, hours in front of a screen. None of it looks dangerous on its own. But these are micro stressors, and they accumulate. Your nervous system was built to handle short bursts of stress followed by recovery, not a constant low hum of demand that never lets up.
02 / The erosion
Movement, sleep, sunlight exposure, the way you use your eyes, real human contact, even how you breathe. These were once built into an ordinary day without you trying. Our digital habits have eroded almost all of it, and what's left is a Human Operating System running with none of its original recovery inputs.
You're not broken. You're running incompatible software on ancient hardware, and the friction is the exhaustion you're feeling.
The average adult is now processing an estimated 74GB of data every single day, and that volume keeps climbing. Your biology hasn't caught up. It can't.
If you want practical, brain based ways to work with your biology instead of against it, this book gives you exactly that: research backed micro habits, built for the way your brain and body actually function.
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