Digital minimalism

Newport, Digital minimalismIf the formatting of this post seems odd or incomplete, try viewing the original on my site.I read this, iRoNiCaLlY, as a PDF on my phone. I was seized by a compulsion to read it on Friday afternoon; it wasn’t on the Libraries NI Libby subscription (here’s a secret: Barely Anything Is), so I googled* it as a reminder to take it out physically and found to my amusement that the third result was a direct link to a PDF of the book hosted on archive dot org (god bless america???).*I don’t actually use Google.It’s a good book with, satisfyingly, more tangible advice than many in the “technology bad” genre: an effective mix of concrete examples showing why social media companies are ethically unsound, descriptions of pre-digital-age thinkers and the ways they connected with their community and environment, and juicy morsels of human interest. The 30-day “detox” period looked like it could work pretty well, although I didn’t really feel able to apply it myself…