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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Hardcover – February 5, 2019
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"Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don't, bring value to your life."--Ezra Klein, Vox
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.
In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends and family without the obsessive urge to document the experience. They stay informed about the news of the day, but don't feel overwhelmed by it. They don't experience "fear of missing out" because they already know which activities provide them meaning and satisfaction.
Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement, and makes a persuasive case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world. Common sense tips, like turning off notifications, or occasional rituals like observing a digital sabbath, don't go far enough in helping us take back control of our technological lives, and attempts to unplug completely are complicated by the demands of family, friends and work. What we need instead is a thoughtful method to decide what tools to use, for what purposes, and under what conditions.
Drawing on a diverse array of real-life examples, from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers, Newport identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. He shows how digital minimalists are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude. He then shares strategies for integrating these practices into your life, starting with a thirty-day "digital declutter" process that has already helped thousands feel less overwhelmed and more in control.
Technology is intrinsically neither good nor bad. The key is using it to support your goals and values, rather than letting it use you. This book shows the way.
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“I challenge you not to devour this wonderful book in one sitting. I certainly did, and I started applying Cal’s ideas to my own life immediately.” —Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism
“You’re not the user, you’re the product. Hang up, log off, and tune in to a different way to be in the world. Bravo, Cal. Smart advice for good people.” —Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing
“This book is an urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life.” –Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle is the Way
“Cal Newport has discovered a cure for the techno-exhaustion that plagues our always-on, digitally caffeinated culture.” —Joshua Fields Millburn, The Minimalists
“I hope that everyone who owns a mobile phone and has been wondering where their time goes gets a chance to absorb the ideas in this book. It’s amazing how the same strategy can work for both financial success and mental well-being: Put more energy into what makes you happy, and ruthlessly strip away the things that don’t.” —Peter Adeney, aka Mr. Money Mustache
“Cal’s call for meaningful and engaged interactions is just what the world needs right now.” —Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind
"What a timely and useful book! It's neither hysterical nor complacent - a workable guide to being thoughtful about digital media. It's already made me rethink some of my media use in a considered way. " —Naomi Alderman, New York Times bestselling author of The Power
“Digital Minimalism is a welcome invitation to reconsider how we want to use our screens rather than letting the screens (and the billionaires behind them) make the call.” –KJ Dell'Antonia, author of How to be a Happier Parent
"Simple, insightful, and actionable, this philosophy provides a sorely needed framework for thriving in the digital age. It will transform many lives for the better, including my own." —Ryder Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Bullet Journal Method
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In September 2016, the influential blogger and commentator Andrew Sullivan wrote a 7,000-word essay for New York magazine titled, “I Used to be a Human Being.” Its subtitle was alarming: “An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.”
The article was widely shared. I’ll admit, however, that when I first read it, I didn’t fully comprehend Sullivan’s warning. I’m one of the few members of my generation to never have a social media account, and tend not to spend much time web surfing. As a result, my phone plays a relatively minor role in my life—a fact that places me outside the mainstream experience this article addressed. In other words, I knew that the innovations of the Internet Age were playing an increasingly intrusive role in many people’s lives, but I didn’t have a visceral understanding of what this meant. That is, until everything changed.
Earlier in 2016, I published a book titled Deep Work. It was about the underappreciated value of intense focus and how the professional world’s emphasis on distracting communication tools was holding people back from producing their best work. As my book found an audience, I began to hear from more and more of my readers. Some sent me messages, while others cornered me after public appearances—but many of them asked the same question: What about their personal lives? They agreed with my arguments about office distractions, but as they then explained, they were arguably even more distressed by the way new technologies seemed to be draining meaning and satisfaction from their time spent outside of work. This caught my attention and tumbled me unexpectedly into a crash course on the promises and perils of modern digital life.
Almost everyone I spoke to believed in the power of the internet, and recognized that it can and should be a force that improves their lives. They didn’t necessarily want to give up Google Maps, or abandon Instagram, but they also felt as though their current relationship with technology was unsustainable—to the point that if something doesn’t change soon, they’d break, too.
A common term I heard in these conversations about modern digital life was exhaustion. It’s not that any one app or website was particularly bad when considered in isolation. The issue was the overall impact of having so many different shiny baubles pulling so insistently at their attention and manipulating their mood. Their problem with this frenzied activity is less about its details than the fact that it’s increasingly beyond peoples’ control. Few want to spend so much time online, but these tools have a way of cultivating behavioral addictions. The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.
As I discovered in my subsequent research, and will argue in the next chapter, some of these addictive properties are accidental (few predicted the extent to which text messaging could command your attention), while many are quite purposeful (compulsive use is the foundation for many social media business plans). But whatever its source, this irresistible attraction to screens is leading people to feel as though they’re ceding more and more of their autonomy when it comes to deciding how they direct their attention. No one, of course, signed up for this loss of control.
They downloaded the apps and signed up for the networks for good reasons, only to discover, with grim irony, that these services were beginning to undermine the very values that made them appealing in the first place: They joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then end up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with the friend sitting across the table.
I also learned about the negative impact of unrestricted online activity on psychological well-being. Many people I spoke to underscored social media’s ability to manipulate their mood. The constant exposure to their friends’ carefully curated portrayals of their lives generates feelings of inadequacy—especially during periods when they’re already feeling low—and for teenagers, it provides a cruelly effective way to be publicly excluded.
In addition, as demonstrated during the 2016 presidential election, online discussion seems to accelerate peoples’ shift toward emotionally-charged and draining extremes. The techno-philosopher Jaron Lanier convincingly argues that the primacy of anger and outrage online is, in some sense, an unavoidable feature of the medium: In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts. For heavy internet users, the constant exposure to this darkness can become a source of draining negativity—a steep price that many don’t even realize they’re paying to support their compulsive connectivity.
Encountering this distressing collection of concerns—from the exhausting and addictive overuse of these tools, to their ability to reduce autonomy, decrease happiness, stoke darker instincts and distract from more valuable activities—opened my eyes to the fraught relationship so many now maintain with the technologies that dominate our culture. It provided me, in other words, a much better understanding of what Andrew Sullivan meant when he lamented: “I used to be a human being.”
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Let me divide this review into 3 parts. First I'll share reasons why I chose to read the book and some personal takeaways. Next, a summary of the book including short excerpts I highlighted while taking notes. Last, I'll suggest a few complementary readings.
PERSONAL THOUGHTS
I probably pre-ordered this book because I’ve been intrigued by how the overused of modern technologies—specially social networks and social media—have influenced our societies during the last 10 years. This latest wave is actually recent, and being in my early 30s I still remember clearly how life was during high school and early days in college before this explosion.
We all acknowledge the wonders of technology, how the development of new tools has helped the prosperity of our societies in many dimensions. However, the opposite is equally important—consequences that deserve to be understood and evaluated. Besides the social, emotional and psychological aspects, which are the main focus of Digital Minimalism, I also care about the impacts on our physical health caused by technology overexposure. Not only how the devices shape our physical posture for worst over the years but also the detrimental effects of electromagnetic fields to our overall health.
That said, I’ve been trying to be mindful about technology use during the last 4-5 years. I still have social network accounts, but I feel quite odd among my peers because I’ve been checking these accounts less often than ever—about once a month—but I rarely post pictures or comments. It brings a deep sense of freedom and calmness. In terms of smartphone use, I keep it on airplane mode for around 80% of the awake time, and I often try to go on adventures up in the mountains to be away from signal access for days or weeks at a time. This desire to be unreachable has grown over time and, although it makes me feel grounded and present, I admit that can be quite selfish of me towards loved ones.
Reading this book helped me better understand the forces behind addictive technologies, exposed me to pragmatic ideas to implement the minimalism philosophy, and supported my previous thoughts on how we can better handle digital overexposure.
SUMMARY
[Intro] Digital minimalism, according to Cal Newport, is a philosophy where we focus our online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that support the things we value. We learn how the author got interested in the topic after receiving feedbacks from his previous book.
[Chapter 1] Cal starts with a refresher—bringing back to the early and “potentially innocent" days of Facebook and the iPhone—then, he soon shows how these new technologies took the lead by dictating how we behave and how we feel by pushing us to overuse their products for as long as possible. Interesting story about how NYU professor Adam Alter shifted his research topic after getting “trapped” for 6 uninterrupted hours playing a game on his phone during a cross-country flight. Cal then explains 2 of the main forces used by technology companies to encourage behavior addiction: [1] Intermittent positive reinforcement. [2] The drive for social approval.
[Chapter 2] Here is a primer on digital minimalism. We learn that "to reestablish control, we need to move beyond tweaks and instead rebuild our relationship with technology from scratch, using our deeply held values as a foundation.” Cal explains why digital minimalism works through 3 principles: [1] The first principle argues that, when we clutter our time and attention with many apps, social networks, and services, we create an overall negative cost compared to the benefits of each individual item in isolation. I was absolutely delighted to read his arguments by sharing Henry Thoreau’s decision to live for two years in a cabin near the Walden Pond. Thoreau's book, Walden, has actually impacted my life tremendously when I first read as a freshmen in college. [2] The second principle says that besides choosing a technology that supports our values, we should also think how we should use them to extract full benefits—optimizing, therefore, the returns. Here Cal shows how “the law of diminishing returns” can be directly correlated with potential negative effects when technology usage surpass the benefits they can generate. [3] The last principle shows that being more intentional about how we engage with new technologies is one way to become sincerely satisfied. For that, the author illustrates the Amish's approach toward technology: “they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to their values.”
[Chapter 3] In this chapter Cal shares a system for digital decluttering by transforming our relationship with technology. He encourages us to apply a rapid transformation: “something that occurs in a short period of time and is executed with enough conviction that the results are likely to stick.” He divides the process in 3 steps: [1] The first one is to establish which ones of the new “optional” technologies we can step away from without creating major problems in either our professional or personal life. [2] The second step is to take the leap and give ourselves a 30-day break while we rediscover the activities that generate real satisfaction without being attached to our devices. [3] The final step is the reintroduction, building it from the scratch, following the principles previously explained in chapter 2 by choosing carefully the apps/tools and using them with a deeper sense of purpose.
[Chapter 4] This is most probably my favorite chapter, where we learn the value of solitude. Cal starts by sharing an interesting story of President Lincoln’s decision to reside in a cottage during months at time, communicating back and forth to the White House on horseback. The author then shares the benefits of solitude such as being a prerequisite for original and creative thoughts, as well as a deeper appreciation for interpersonal connections when they occur. He then shifts gears toward the impacts of solitude depravation, showing, for example, that the rise in anxiety-related problems among students coincide with the use of smartphones and social media. At the end of the chapter we learn 3 practices to foster more solitude moments in our daily lives: [1] To leave our phones and devices at home. [2] To go on long walks. [3] To spend time journaling.
[Chapter 5] Now we jump to a chapter rich in social psychology lessons. We first learn how our brains evolved to desire social interactions, but differently than the rich face-to-face encounters, during the last decade or so we have been bombarded by digital communication tools, encouraging interactions through short, text-based messages and approval clicks. At the end Cal offers practices to develop meaningful “conversation-centric communication.” They range from avoiding clicking the “like” button all the way to holding more meaningful conversations during office hours.
[Chapter 6] Now we jump to an empowering chapter. We learn to cultivate high-quality leisure time at the same time we declutter the low-quality digital distractions from our lives. They both, in fact, work together in order to create a more purposeful habit. This chapter is filled with real life examples of successful stories where helpful lessons are drawn at the end of each example. Like in the previous chapters, Cal doesn’t share only examples, but also practical ways to adopt his claims. My favorite suggestion is about scheduling in advance the time we'll be spending on low-quality leisure.
[Chapter 7] The final chapter is about building a more resistant mindset to avoid the power of the attention economy—which is “business sector that makes money gathering consumers' attention and then repacking and selling it to advertisers." Practices are provided when further discipline is required to avoid exploitation: [1] Delete social media from our phone to remove the ability to access them at any time. If we're going to use social medial, we should access them through a web browser. [2] Turn our devices into purposeful tools, diminishing the number of things they enable us to do. In Cal's own words “I’m not talking about occasionally blocking some sites when working on a particularly hard project. I want you instead to think about these services as being blocked by default, and made available to you on an intentional schedule.” [3] To use social media like a social media professional does. [4] To embrace the slow media consumption by maximizing the quality of what we consume. [5] Making the hard choice to switch from smartphone to a “dumb” phone.
COMPLEMENTARY READINGS
Well, it doesn’t matter where in the spectrum we fall as long as we vow to move the needle towards a more meaningful and intentional technology use, diminishing our “natural” tendency to become dependent on digital devices. While reading Digital Minimalism I thought about book titles that could complement the content.
[1] Essentialism, by Greg McKeown, is definitely the one that comes to mind first. It helped me focus on less but more important tasks, giving clarity to what matters most.
[2] Originals, by Adam Grant, helped me see the world of creativity through a different angle by being more true to who I'm.
[3] Atomic Habits, by James Clear, has already influenced me to build better and more meaningful habits during the last 3 months. It can be an extremely helpful source to apply the lessons suggested in Chapter 6.
[4] Last, if you'd like to learn a bit more about electromagnetic fields and how we can minimize the dangers, look no further than The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs, by Nicolas Pineault.
Take good care,
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Cal's philosophy on technology use has always been spot on, which is all the more surprising given his background as an MIT-educated computer science professor. Digital Minimalism was everything I expected it to be, and I can't recommend it enough. It is a book that everyone should read, as it really helps to put our current excessive technology use into perspective. Sadly, most of those reading Digital Minimalism are likely the choir; those who most need to hear Cal's advice will be so caught up in their digital distraction that they will never encounter the book.
My favorite thing about the book is that Cal's advice is immensely practical. He is no Luddite, and he does not expect you to eliminate technology from your life. In fact, he urges you to embrace technology when it strongly supports the things you value most in life. He does not argue for or against any specific technology, but instead urges us to closely scrutinize any new technology before allowing it to enter our life. We should stop viewing new technology through the prism of what we are missing out on, and instead evaluate new technology based on how it supports our core goals and, specifically, whether the new technology is the BEST way to support our goals. If a new technology is deemed to be the best way to support our goals, Cal then recommends that we carefully tailor our use of the technology to get the most benefit while minimizing the concomitant distractions. This is where Cal's practical advice shines. For instance, instead of instituting a blanket ban on social media (like his detractors might expect him to do), Cal suggests that those who use social media limit their use to their computer or tablet (i.e., no iPhone social media unless absolutely necessary!) in order to eliminate boredom browsing, and also to tailor their settings for the social media application to ensure that the app is serving the user and not the other way around. Although I share Cal's disdain for social media and abstain from it entirely, I definitely understand that total abstinence may not be feasible for some people, and I feel that his advice is the most common sense approach that I have come across.
I found myself agreeing with almost everything Cal says in the book, but I do have two minor critiques. First, toward the end of the book, Cal discusses the emergence of app-blocking software and "Dumb Phones", and seemingly recommends that we adopt these paternalistic mechanisms to prevent us from being trapped by the allure of new technology. Cal's praise for these things weakens the strength of his arguments for the Digital Minimalism philosophy, as it suggests that we are doomed to be sucked into the new technology vortex and that the only way to avoid this outcome is to take drastic measures that will literally not allow us the freedom to make our own choices about technology. I believe Cal's cheerleading of these app-blockers and "Dumb Phones" is short-sighted, as the practices outlined in Digital Minimalism should allow us the strong will to avoid these technological temptations. Also, it needs to be said that introducing these things into your technological mix could actually cause additional distraction; think of how much time you might waste trying to program your browser blocker to prevent yourself from visiting a certain mix of ever-changing sites at various points in the day and week. How much time will we waste researching the best "Dumb Phone" and constantly switching back and forth between it and our regular iPhone? Is it worth all the trouble? Tellingly, at the end of the section Cal seemingly admits that he just sticks with an iPhone, as it is not enough of a distraction for him to have to add the extra hassle of a "Dumb Phone." I think this should be the advice for all of us, as unless we put ourselves in some sort of bubble, there will always be unavoidable digital temptations out there that will require a strong backbone (and Digital Minimalist mindset) to resist.
My second criticism is that Cal's advice on how to spend your free time is a bit muddled. On one hand, he strongly stresses the importance of ample amounts of solitude, which he describes as "a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds." Yet he also stresses the importance of prioritizing demanding activities that often require strained mental effort. He references Arnold Bennett, who recommended reading difficult literature and poetry for leisure. To be fair, Cal does caution against taking Bennett's list of prescribed activities too literally, but he seems to endorse Bennett's philosophy of engaging in mentally demanding leisure pursuits that don't fit his definition of solitude. There seems to be a bit of conflict between the recommendation of Thoreau-esque solitude, whereby one might spend his/her time building a cabin or doing simple manual labor, and the recommendation of mentally demanding leisure activities such as reading dense writing. I think that it is likely that both of these types of activities are important, but Cal never really distinguishes between the two nor provides a discussion of how much of each we might need.
These two critiques are minor, and really should be viewed more as topics that I hope Cal will address in his future writings as opposed to outright criticisms. I'm a huge fan of Cal and his writing, and I look forward to continuing to learn from him in the future. In conclusion, I strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of Digital Minimalism, and perhaps pick up an extra copy to gift to that person in your life who never looks up from their phone. Digital Minimalism is an important, timely work that we can all benefit from.
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Reviewed in India on July 26, 2023
It's a very, very useful read, and enjoyable, too. Newport is not a traditional Luddite - he's a computer science academic - but he is very well aware of the dangers that smartphones, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pose to our concentration at work, our quality leisure time and even our relationships. In seven chapters, he suggests ways of dealing with this and streamlining digital usage. His suggestions include trying a 'digital detox' for 30 days (to prove that social media and smartphone usage is not essential), taking regular exercise (particularly long walks), contacting friends and family personally rather than simply 'liking' their posts on social media, making time for quality leisure activities - reading, arts and crafts, music, DIY and others - and learning to spend time alone without being 'plugged in' to technology and to spending periods without a smartphone (or perhaps, replacing the smartphone with an old-fashioned mobile). At the same time, Newport sensibly doesn't damn technology altogether, and is well aware that certain aspects of social media are necessary in certain jobs (for example, journalists in certain fields might need to look at Twitter). His view is balanced, and sensible, and having tried out some of his suggestions I can confidently say that they work.
The book's a delight in terms of style as well - the prose is beautifully lucid and elegant, there are lots of fascinating references to other writers (I now want to read Henry David Thoreau, Soren Kierkegaard and Anthony Storr), and Newport includes some valuable reminders of what really matters in life: quality time with family and close friends, music-making, practical tasks, walks in attractive surroundings, reading with real focus.
My only quibble is that Newport perhaps skates over some of the personal nastiness on social media, particularly Twitter, which appears to bring out the worst in people, and can be quite psychologically traumatic (I find I either end up feeling extremely inadequate reading about people's amazing achievements, or horrified at the amount of spite and aggression I come across). But behavioural patterns on social media wasn't really the book's remit, and anyone who wants to read about that can turn to Jaron Lanier's superb 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now' - or some of Newport's own talks on YouTube.
This book is essential reading for our crowded and generally rather unhappy times - and very enjoyable as well. Thank you Cal Newport - you've increased my focus and productivity considerably through your writing!
Otra vez podemos ver ejemplos de hábitos valiosos en personajes de siglos pasados. Resulta irónico que tomemos ejemplos de cómo vivir bien no de nuestra época, sino de épocas pasadas, cuando se supone que debería ser al revés, debido al supuesto progreso.
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