A two-week discussion of Stand Out of Our Light, by James Williams on Wednesdays, August 23 & 30 from 6-7 pm in the Lounge.

The endless scroll. Losing sleep. Finding yourself distracted and unable to look away from your phone. These are not accidental byproducts of social media; they are the result of intentional, systematic effort to direct your thoughts and actions by controlling your attention. In this two-week conversation, Brian Sigmon will lead a discussion of the book Stand Out of Our Light, by Google strategist turned Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams. Learn what you can do to reclaim your attention and willpower so you can want "what you want to want” and learn why freeing our attention may be nothing less than “the defining moral and political task of the information age.”  

Purchase the book at Amazon or read for free via the publisher’s open-access PDF here.