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  1. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    In July, Thoreau moved into the cabin where he then lived for the next two years. In the book Walden, he wrote about this experience, famously describing his motivation as follows: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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  2. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    Is Silicon Valley programming apps or are they programming people?" Cooper asks. "They are programming people,
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  3. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that accepts new technologies, but not if the price is the dehumanization Andrew Sullivan warned us about; a philosophy that prioritizes long-term meaning over short-term satisfaction.
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  4. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    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.
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  5. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    The sugar high of convenience is fleeting and the sting of missing out dulls rapidly, but the meaningful glow that comes from taking charge of what claims your time and attention is something that persists.
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  6. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    This is why clutter is dangerous. It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we possess: the minutes of our life.
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  7. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    It took them seven years, but their efforts culminated in the 2017 release of Lead Yourself First.
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  8. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    The Minimalist Technology Screen To allow an optional technology back into your life at the end of the digital declutter, it must: Serve something you deeply value {offering some benefit is not enough}. Be the best way to use technology to serve this value {if it's not, replace it with something better}. Have a role in your life that is constrained with a standard operating procedure that specifies when and how you use it."
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  9. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    now checks AllSides.com once a day-a news site that covers the top stories, but for each story it neutrally links to three articles: one from a source associated with the political left, one from the right, and one from the
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  10. Cal Newport _ Digital Minimalism: On Living

    You cannot expect an app dreamed up in a dorm room, or among the Ping-Pong tables of a Silicon Valley incubator, to successfully replace the types of rich interactions to which we've painstakingly adapted over millennia. Our sociality is simply too complex to be outsourced to a social network or reduced to instant messages and emojis.
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