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Digital Minimalism

  • 295 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2019
  • 9 editions

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1 About this book

The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.

In recent years, our culture's relationship with personal technology has transformed from something exciting into something darker. Innovations like smartphones and social media are useful, but many of us are increasingly troubled by how much control these tools seem to exert over our daily experiences – including how we spend our free time and how we feel about ourselves.

In Digital Minimalism, Newport proposes a bold solution: a minimalist approach to technology use in which you radically reduce the time you spend online, focusing on a small set of carefully-selected activities while happily ignoring the rest.

Good for readers who want: business and self-improvement.

  • Information technology
  • Technology, social aspects
  • Business & economics
  • Self-help
  • Technology & engineering
  • Technological innovations

2 About Cal Newport

Born 1982

Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and full-time professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He is known for his writings about attention management in the digital age.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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