Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport

A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

minimalists don’t mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

The Amish prioritize the benefits generated by acting intentionally about technology over the benefits lost from the technologies they decide not to use.

new technologies help create a culture that undermines time alone with your thoughts,

conversation is the only form of interaction that in some sense counts toward maintaining a relationship.

Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption.