Digital minimalism: a philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

Philosophy of technology use: “something that covers from the ground up which digital tools we allow into our life, for what reasons, and under which constraints.”

“By working backward from their deep values to their technology choices, digital minimalists transform these innovations from a source of distraction into tools to support a life well lived. By doing so, they break the spell that has made so many people feel like they’re losing control to their screens.”

Principles of digital minimalism: 1. Clutter is costly. 2. Optimization is important. 3. Intentionality is satisfying.

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

Minimalist Technology Screen: 1. Serve something you deeply value (offering some benefit is not enough). 2. Be the best way to use technology to serve this value (if it’s not, replace it with something better). 3. Have a role in your life that is constrained with a standard operating procedure that specifies when and how you use it.

Don’t click ‘Like’. Ever. — it teaches your mind that “connection is a reasonable alternative to conversation.”

Leisure Lessons: 1. Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption. 2. Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world. 3. Seek activities that require real-world, structured social interactions.

Fix or build something every week. Schedule your low-quality leisure. Join things.

Seasonal leisure plan (fall, winter, summer): objectives and habits

Tips: Delete social media from your phone, turn your devices into single-purpose computers (Freedom)