Across eleven chapters, Reynolds gives anecdotal and research-based accounts of how common phone habits may weaken a person's well-being, success, and relationships . He pulls from his life as a business executive, world traveler, father, partner, and friend for a critical look at our society's dependency on cell phones and what we lose when we fail to look outside of them. Whether in our apartment buildings, at a stadium concert, or miles high in an airplane - he urges his readers to engage with the environment around them and start living.