Guard Your Autonomy

By Michael B Durland

This book is about protecting your independence, your judgment, and your ability to make clear decisions in a world constantly trying to pull your attention, shape your choices, and wear down your boundaries.

If you care about staying grounded, thinking for yourself, and keeping ownership of your life, this for you.

Inside this booklet: How the attention economy actually works, from someone who has spent over a decade inside itWhy your brain is wired to lose this fight by default, and what that means for the choices you make every dayThe real cost of losing, measured in skill you never built, work you never shipped, and time you cannot get backThe offense side of the problem: why guarding attention is only half of it, and what the other half looks likeWhat to do differently starting today, without productivity rituals or habit stacksWho this is for:

Anyone who feels the pull of the feed and wants to understand the mechanism behind it. Anyone who has tried to build something meaningful and watched the hours disappear into a scroll. Anyone who senses that the version of the internet coming next will be harder to resist than the one we have now.

Short, direct, and written to be finished in one sitting. 48 pages. No filler.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GX5B1LDX
• ISBN13: 9798257055614
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"