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When I was 21, I was sucked into a world of ambition. Starting my adult life in the Bay Area, I was surrounded by the sense that I was supposed to start a startup, change the world. I never wanted to start a startup. Reading stories of famous founders, and...
I’ve been writing about digital intentionality for a few months now, and I keep talking about how it’s important and it changed my life, but I haven’t yet told you how to actually do it. If you want to implement digital intentionality, I strongly recommend a thirty-day ‘digital declutter’. Anything...
It is unbearable to not be consuming. All through the house is nothing but silence. The need inside of me is not an ache, it is caustic, sour, the burning desire to be distracted, to be listening, watching, scrolling. Some of the time I think I’m happy. I think this...
My friend Justis wrote a post this week on what his non-rationalist (“normal”) friends are like. He said: > Digital minimalism is well and good, and being intentional about devices is fine, but most normal people I know are perfectly fine with their level of YouTube, Instagram, etc. consumption. The...
Going into November, I wanted to write a sequence of blog posts that would convince people to practice digital intentionality, and show them how to do it. The theory of change was something like: A lot of people have written books on this topic, and they sometimes work to change...
I just saw someone on an electric unicycle texting while going through an intersection. Their body was so exposed, so fragile, zipping through that intersection right next to all those cars. What was so urgent that it couldn’t wait for them to pull over? I mean, I know the answer...
In my first week of digital declutter, I started to feel human again. I didn’t and still don’t know what I meant by this, but the words felt right. And I’m not the first to feel this way — the 2016 essay that inspired Cal Newport to write Digital Minimalism...