Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.Cal Newport
Solitude Deprivation: A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.Cal Newport
Clutter is costly.Cal Newport
We didn't evolve to be constantly wired-in to our environment. This new practice of never being away from technology is not beneficial to a good life.Cal Newport
The challenge of the future will be to determine what digital behaviors are truly beneficial and what are superficially attractive but ultimately harmful.Cal Newport
Many digital tools are designed around the urge to provide you with as many different things as possible to click.Cal Newport
The goal of decluttering isn't just to create a void—it's about making room for better things.Cal Newport
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau (Quoted by Cal Newport)
Confusing 'useful' with 'indispensable' is a definite obstacle to digital minimalism.Cal Newport
We fill the quiet with digital noise because it’s easy and immediate. But the cost is a significant decrease in the quality of our lives.Cal Newport