Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport

I’ve become convinced that what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

We added new technologies to the periphery of our experience for minor reasons, then woke one morning to discover that they had colonized the core of our daily life.

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

My suggestion is that you try to learn and apply one new skill every week, over a period of six weeks.