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Digital minimalism: on living better with less technology

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Portfolio 2019 Great BritainDescription: xviii, 284 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780241341131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833 N3D4
Summary: The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addiction to tech leaves us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this timely book, professor Cal Newport shows us how to pair back digital distractions and live better with less technology. Introducing us to digital minimalists -- the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones or obsessively document everything they eat -- Newport reveals how to live more intentionally in our tech-saturated world. By following a thirty-day 'digital declutter' process, you'll learn to: · Rethink your relationship with social media · Prioritize 'high bandwidth' conversations over low quality text chains · Rediscover the pleasures of the offline world Take back control from your devices and become a digital minimalist. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308636/digital-minimalism/9780241341131.html
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Table of contents:

A lopsided arms race
Digital minimalism
The digital declutter
Spend time alone
Don't click "like"
Reclaim leisure
Join the attention resistance.

The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addiction to tech leaves us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be that way.
In this timely book, professor Cal Newport shows us how to pair back digital distractions and live better with less technology.

Introducing us to digital minimalists -- the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones or obsessively document everything they eat -- Newport reveals how to live more intentionally in our tech-saturated world.

By following a thirty-day 'digital declutter' process, you'll learn to:

· Rethink your relationship with social media
· Prioritize 'high bandwidth' conversations over low quality text chains
· Rediscover the pleasures of the offline world

Take back control from your devices and become a digital minimalist.


https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308636/digital-minimalism/9780241341131.html

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