Reddit mentions of Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

A related book that just came out takes the same idea but for time: "Does the way we spend our time [particularly in the digital world] reflect our values?"

It's Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Definitely recommended.

Edit: Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy/dp/0525536515

http://calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/

Submission statement: Cal is an academic and bestselling author of many books on productivity, focus, and effective study. This post talks about the effectiveness of "Indie Social Media" to achieve a completely different objective than other alternative social media failures that try to be the next Facebook or Twitter. The IDW is name checked as well.

> If you’re deeply committed to the Intellectual Dark Web, for example, then Thinkspot will probably return you much more value than Instagram or Twitter, even though its audience size is a minuscule fraction of these giants.

If you're not familiar with the author, I highly recommend his books Deep Work and Digital Minimalism.

Read these two books. Digital Minimalism and Atomic Habits. Take the learnings from both, actually practice them and it will be a complete game changer.

Reading books of course, it will greatly improve your ability to focus which has been really harmed by internet surfing. You may also work on improving some marketable skills, like programming, graphics design, etc., whatever you choose. To dive more into those topics I recommend you to read Cal Newport's books, especially Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, he also has interesting blog: calnewport.com/blog, old posts touch this topic in more depth. Another book that I would like to recommend you is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains which will show you how damaging internet can be.

Wow, you're the first to ever have this realization. It's not like there's already a movement to reduce and minimize phone and email use. Or whole books written on it.

Cal Newport

This article is honestly an echo of Cal Newport’s ideas in Deep Work and Digital Minimalism neither of which were referenced. Attention residue isn’t “his idea,” but he definitely communicated it in a productivity sense for the masses in Deep Work.

Also, the entire message of Digital Minimalism was to show that being mindful of non-essential technologies (social media, video games, blogs, etc.) is better than going cold turkey quitting them. If you’re going to write an article on a topic that’s been written about extensively, you should reference those sources. Poorly written and fluffy article.