"Part of a pioneering movement."
TODAY SHOW
"I gave Shlain's idea a try, and I highly recommend it."
David Leonhardt
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"I can't wait to see what a decade of Tech Shabbats feels like."
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
"Part of a pioneering movement."
Maria Shriver
TODAY SHOW
24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection
by Tiffany Shlain
Winner of The Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award
Winner of Best Audio Tech Books of All Time
National Bestseller
Do you wish you had more time to do what you love, think deeply, and focus on the people and things that matter most? By giving up screens one day a week for more than fifteen years, internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence.
Shlain takes us on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey through time and technology, introducing a strategy for flourishing in our 24/7 world. Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With humor and wisdom, Shlain shares her story, offering the accessible lessons she has learned and providing a blueprint for how to do it yourself.
“Bolstered with fascinating and germane facts about neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and the history of the concept of a day of rest” (Publishers Weekly), 24/6 makes the case for incorporating this weekly reset into our 24/7 lives, issuing a call to rebalance ourselves and our society.
"This wise, wonderful work demonstrates how
turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul."
- Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
“Tiffany Shlain is a modern-day prophet, brilliant and incredibly funny in equal measure....
24/6 is timeless and timely wisdom.”
- Angela Duckworth, number one New York Times best-selling author)
#1 BEST NEW TECH BOOK
BOOK AUTHORITY
TOP TIME MANAGEMENT BOOKS TO READ
ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE
"WISE, WONDERFUL WORK"
PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY
STARRED REVIEW
GREAT BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN
REAL SIMPLE MAGAZINE
TOP 10 BUSINESS BOOKS
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
TOP TEN BEST BOOKS
& HEATHER'S PICK
INDIGO BOOKS
NEW BOOK WORTH READING
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
Stories from Readers
"She convinced me that a day of disconnection is a path towards reconnection to the rest of our lives."
VINT CERF
CO-CREATOR OF THE INTERNET
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
In 2008, Tiffany Shlain’s father, Leonard, was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she began to change her use of technology when the two of them were together. “Some days he would have only one good hour,” she later wrote in the Harvard Business Review...”
THE WASHINGTON POST
Long ago, your workweek ended once you left the office — or so I have been told. But work culture has changed a lot in the past decade.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
In Praise of Being Unproductive
Are you productive? Efficient? Useful? More to the point, are you productive, efficient, and useful enough? These are the kinds of questions that arise when technology makes it easy to stay online and connected 24/7. But all this connectivity brings two unfortunate side effects.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
When the pandemic blended our professional and personal lives by forcing many of us to work from home, we learned a valuable lesson about tech. It can be an incredibly useful tool for communicating with colleagues. But when used without care, it can hurt our productivity and our relationships.
FORBES
8 Reasons Why You Should Unplug One Day A Week
In her new book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, Webby Award founder, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and mother of two Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens for 24 hours each week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Turn Tech to Your Advantage in the New Hybrid Workplace
When the pandemic blended our professional and personal lives by forcing many of us to work from home, we learned a valuable lesson about tech. It can be an incredibly useful tool for communicating with colleagues. But when used without care, it can hurt our productivity and our relationships
PEOPLE
BOOKS WORTH READING
24/6 was featured in People Magazine. The book explores Tiffany and her family's decade-long practice of turning off all screens for 24 hours every week for what they call their Technology Shabbat. Character Day 2019 was all about the relationship between character + screens.
MARIN MAGAZINE
A Conversation with Tech Innovator and Mother Tiffany Shlain
For three decades, Tiffany Shlain has been a poster child for the utility and promise of technology. As a Redwood High student in the late ’80s, she co-wrote a paper entitled "Uniting Nations in Telecommunications and Software" and traveled to the Soviet Union as a young tech ambassador.
MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
Put down your phone and be here now
A few months ago, I arrived at work and realized I left my smartphone at home. I panicked. How would my kids get in touch with me? Did I have a dermatologist appointment that day? What if that cute guy from a dating app texted me to see if I was free that night?
CNET
In an interview for CNET's Now What series, author Tiffany Shlain says staying off the internet for 24 hours as part of her weekly "Tech Shabbat" is key to coping with our always-connected world.
"Part of a pioneering movement."
TODAY SHOW
Films by Tiffany Related Tech Shabbat
Events and Book Tour
Events + Book Tour Highlights
From Tiffany, two months into book tour back in 2019:
It's been a literary whirlwind this fall, 2019. It’s felt like I've been living in fast-forward, except during Tech Shabbat, and in those moments connecting with someone at a book signing, stopping to appreciate a note from a reader, seeing the beautiful different combination of friends, family and new people in an audience—all in once place, like a moveable wedding.
I was over the moon to be in The New York Times in an article about the relationship between Thanksgiving and Tech Shabbats. 24/6 is featured in The Harvard Business Review, People Magazine, Indigo Books' list of the Top 10 of 2019 (alongside Margret Atwood!), and as Book Authority's #1 Tech Book to Read in 2020. Tomorrow is MSNBC's Morning Joe, where we'll be talking about the effects of the 24/7 news cycle on our psyche and our democracy.
It's a dream to have the book that I poured so many ideas into about time, technology, philosophy, history, neuroscience, our relationship to the online world, be received this way. Thank you to all of you who has given me so much support on my whole journey!
Being on Good Morning America and TODAY and MSNBC has felt full circle in so many ways. When I was running the Webby Awards many moons ago, I was the regular on-air internet expert for Good Morning America, going on monthly to talk with Diane Sawyer or Charlie Gibson about this powerful new medium that was going to change our lives.
It is quite ironic to be on the the Today Show twenty years later to say, “Don’t forget how to live without the web to remember our humanity without screens."