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You are probably more productive than ever.

So why does life sometimes feel strangely absent?

You can access more information, communicate faster, and accomplish more in a day than people could only imagine a generation ago.

Yet entire conversations disappear from memory.
Years seem to pass without becoming fully real.
Important moments arrive and leave before they are truly received.

In The Missing Room, philosopher and essayist Sal Oldport explores a question that most books about attention never ask:

What if the problem is not that we are distracted?

What if the problem is that we are no longer fully receiving our own lives?

Drawing from philosophy, psychology, contemplative traditions, and ordinary experience, Oldport develops a new language for understanding attention, presence, memory, and what he calls Presence Debt-the hidden cost of living elsewhere while life is happening.

This is not a book about productivity.
It is not a technology manifesto.
And it is not another collection of focus hacks.

Instead, it is an exploration of what becomes possible when attention is treated not as a resource to optimize, but as the substance from which a life is made.

Inside you'll discover:

• Why attention is more than concentration-and why it shapes experience itself
• How intelligent machines reveal patterns that were already present long before they arrived
• The hidden relationship between attention, identity, and memory
• Why many forms of distraction are structural rather than personal failures
• How presence can be recovered without withdrawing from modern life
• A philosophical framework for living meaningfully in the age of intelligent machines

The Missing Room is the first volume of the Deep Focus series.

A journey through attention, presence, and the human experience in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.

For readers of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Four Thousand Weeks, and thoughtful works that explore meaning, attention, and the art of living well.

Parametre knihy

• Celý názov: The Missing Room
• Podnázov: Reclaiming Attention in the Age of Intelligent Machines
• Autor: Sal Oldport
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 76
• EAN: 9798199625944
• ID: 52762108
• Nakladateľ: Independently published
• Hmotnosť: 100 g
• Rozmery: 216 × 140 × 4 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. June 2026

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