The joy of (sort of) missing out

After a month-long hiatus, I have risen from the dead to tackle another Bear Blog Carnival entry, this time hosted by Juni. Her full prompt is: “How do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you make the switch?” A pertinent topic, and one that I’m sure will resonate with those of us that are still blogging in 2026. In my early teens, during COVID lockdowns, I stumbled upon Cal Newport’s blog and his book Digital Minimalism. I have been enamored by the concept ever since. I think of it in a Marie Kondo sort of way: intentionally curating my online activities to keep only those that spark joy, and discarding everything that doesn’t. This is the part where I would love to say that I’m a monkmoding digital minimalist Gigachad with about 30 seconds of screen time a day, with nary a wrinkle of my brain touched by the evils of ragebait. That is not the case, but I am trying my best to remedy that. As Juni has pointed out in her post, there are two main aspects…