From the “Marie Kondo of Digital” comes a thoughtful book about realigning our energies, increasing intentionality, and prioritizing our well-being in the digital age.

It’s time we choose joy over fear. Empowerment over anxiety. JOMO over FOMO. How do we get there? By taking up good burdens.

The things we’re most proud of in life – the child we’re raising; the marathon we completed; the major project we hit out of the park – these required all of us: all of our attention, all of our loves, all of our effort. Could we control the outcome? No. Were we all in? Hell, yes. These effortful pursuits are what digital well being pioneer Christina Crook calls “good burdens”.

In thoughtful prose, Christina Crook’s insightful follow up to the acclaimed The Joy of Missing Out makes the case for increasing intentionality in our day to day lives, unlocking the building blocks of joy, and offering concrete solutions for flourishing in the digital age. Using historical data, real life stories from leading mindful tech leaders and rich personal narrative, Good Burdens advocates for a realignment of our energies, online and off, towards effortful pursuits – cultivating relationships, community, and creative projects that bring lasting joy.

Good Burdens provides practical, research-based solutions to help readers begin to reclaim joy, unplugging from toxic influences, and retake decision-making power over their time and emotional energy.

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Good Burdens Signature Cocktail

1.5oz gin

0.5 lemon

1 heaping tsp blackberry jam

1 tsp sugar

2oz dry white wine

Shake and strain into a Collins or rocks glass with ice. Garnish with blackberries and mint.

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Christina Crook is a pioneer and leading voice of digital well-being. As the author of award-winning The Joy Of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World and the leader of global #JOMO movement, she regularly shares her insights in major media outlets and interviews other mindful tech leaders as the host of the JOMO podcast. Her commentary on technology and daily life have appeared in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, BBC.com, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, Times of India and Glamour. She lives with her family in Toronto, Canada.

David Sax is an award-winning business journalist . His latest book, The Soul of an Entrepreneur, goes beyond the Silicon Valley start-up myth, in order to tell the real stories of small business owners who make up our economy. In his previous book, the #1 Washington Post bestseller The Revenge of Analog, Sax explores the business story and cultural shift that occurred when digital upended every industry—and enabled a comeback for analog in the process. His other writing appears regularly in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker’s business blog, and LA Times, and he is a regular feature on CBC Radio and NPR.

Sarah Selecky is the author of the novel Radiant Shimmering Light and the short story collection This Cake Is for the Party, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She earned her MFA from the University of British Columbia. In 2011 she founded the Sarah Selecky Writing School, which has become a creative community for more than 13,000 writers from around the world. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.