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Maggie Jackson

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Hi, I'm Maggie Jackson, the author of Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention (Prometheus Books, 2nd Ed, 2018) and What's Happening to Home: Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age (Sorin Books, 2002) . When it first came out, Distracted inspired a global conversation on the costs of fragmenting our focus in a technological age. It's been compared by Fast Company magazine to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring for offering the first warning of a looming crisis in our society. Now in an updated edition, I offer a renewed wake-up call and a path forward as we reckon...

Matt Gutman

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I tell stories for a living at ABC News, as the network's Chief National Correspondent. I've covered the news from about 50 countries around the globe. I've covered wars all over the Middle East, disasters all over the world, and more shootings here in the US than I'd like to remember. Which partly explains why the rescue of the Thai soccer team from a cave last summer so captivated me, (and much of the rest of the world.) I felt compelled to write "The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand." It's about a rescue that should have failed. About boys who should...