I’m late posting about this, but Jessica Grose has a good piece about The Distraction Addiction on the Fast Company Co.Create Web site. She starts by talking about Louis C.K.’s recent riff on kids and cellphones, which has gotten lots of attention recently, then shifts to the book:

C.K.’s technological musings sound like they could have been a riff on Alex Soojung-Kim Pang’s new book The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul. Though Pang is more pro-tech than C.K.–he believes that our current technologies can extend our natural abilities and increase our engagement with the world–he’s concerned that we’re letting the Internet and its many diversions control us, rather than the other way around. Like C.K., Pang cautions against the “sybaritic pleasures” of distracting yourself with an off-hand Tweet or a Facebook binge, because the highest levels of happiness come from people who are “absorbed in difficult tasks.”

Pang gives lots of useful tips to those of us experiencing technological overload. Here are his four best suggestions for living a high-tech, non-stress, super productive life. Pang sums his methods up succinctly: “Connection is inevitable. Distraction is a choice.”