![]() ![]() ![]() But as Thoreau reminds us, ‘the sun rose clear’ and we still have the ability to change this state of affairs. “Our current relationship with the technologies of our hyper-connected world is unsustainable and is leading us closer to the quiet desperation that Thoreau observed so many years ago. Here's to Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World! Big Ideas we explore include the fact that your soul is engaged in a lopsided arms race, a definition + overview of digital minimalism, the importance of spending time alone (and the consequences of *not* spending adequate time alone), reclaiming leisure (get active!) and joining the Attention Resistance. As you know, I rarely say a book is a must read but this book is as close as it gets. Enter: My SUPER strong recommendation of the book and my ALL IN commitment to helping create a movement around the ideas in the book. ![]() Enter: Our new philosophy of technology use: Digital Minimalism. Given the fact that the fastest way to Optimize your life is to STOP doing things that are sub-optimal AND the fact that (for nearly all of us) our use of technology is the #1 thing that “Needs work!,” it’s SUPER important for us to figure out how to best use all the technology available to us WITHOUT becoming lost in a tsunami of inputs. He’s also a bestselling author of a number of books. ![]() in Computer Science from MIT and is now a Professor at Georgetown. Cal Newport is one of my favorite thinkers. ![]()
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