Digital Minimalism
Definition
Definition by Cal Newport
Digital minimalism is a philosophy of technology use in which you focus your entire time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities to strongly support things you value and happily miss out everything else.
β Cal Newport
Principles
- Principle #1: βDigital minimalists recognize that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item provides in isolation.β
- Principle #2: βDigital minimalists believe that deciding a particular technology supports something they value is only the first step. To truly extract its full potential benefit, itβs necessary to think carefully about how theyβll use the technology.β
- Principle #3: βDigital minimalists derive significant satisfaction from their general commitment to being more intentional about how they engage with new technologies. This source of satisfaction is independent of the specific decisions they make and is one of the biggest reasons that minimalism tends to be immensely meaningful to its practitioners.β
The Attention Resistance
- Delete social media from your phone
- Turn your devices into single-purpose computers
- Use social media like a professional
- Embrace slow media
- Dumb down your smartphone