Against Convenience
The Costs of Our Everyday Choices & How to Make Better Ones
Will be published approx. on 10. September 2026
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-241-76635-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Against Convenience is a wake-up call. Effort and friction aren't obstacles to a good life - they're essential to it. Gabe Bullard shows us why and how to live more intentionally to build the meaningful life we crave.' - Jennifer Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Mattering and Never Enough
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Are we paying too high a price for 'easy'? When just about anything we want is a few taps away, why does it feel like something in our lives is missing?
From dinner delivered to your door in minutes, to relationships mediated by apps, we've always valued innovations that make life easier. But every convenience has a cost; if we don't pay it, someone else has to.
Against Convenience cuts through the noise, taking a hard look at the effect the services, apps and ideas that claim to simplify life are having on us as consumers and citizens: how do we spot convenience that is actually a false promise? How can we possibly live without them to live more sustainably? What real difference would it make?
An urgent call to re-examine our most 'convenient' choices, and the true cost of these to our minds, our peers, and our planet, award-winning journalist Gabe Bullard unpacks whether a slower, less convenient approach can, paradoxically, unlock a richer, more colourful existence.
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Are we paying too high a price for 'easy'? When just about anything we want is a few taps away, why does it feel like something in our lives is missing?
From dinner delivered to your door in minutes, to relationships mediated by apps, we've always valued innovations that make life easier. But every convenience has a cost; if we don't pay it, someone else has to.
Against Convenience cuts through the noise, taking a hard look at the effect the services, apps and ideas that claim to simplify life are having on us as consumers and citizens: how do we spot convenience that is actually a false promise? How can we possibly live without them to live more sustainably? What real difference would it make?
An urgent call to re-examine our most 'convenient' choices, and the true cost of these to our minds, our peers, and our planet, award-winning journalist Gabe Bullard unpacks whether a slower, less convenient approach can, paradoxically, unlock a richer, more colourful existence.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-241-76635-4 (9780241766354)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
approx. 09/2026
DK RED
€18.55
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E-Book
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DK RED
€12.99
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Person
Gabe Bullard is a Nieman Journalism Fellow and a journalist with twenty years of experience. He helped launch NPR's newest talk show, 1A, then became Managing Producer of NPR's Here & Now. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, 99% Invisible, and Smithsonian Magazine. He writes a column on technology for the media-focused magazine Nieman Reports, based at Harvard University. He is a consultant for radio shows and podcasts and he recently co-founded Together, Alone, an online magazine of television criticism.