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Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism (Hardcover, 2019, Portfolio) 4 stars

Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long …

Review of 'Digital Minimalism' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Some ideas are impractical for small spaces, like crafting physical objects of high quality use and beauty, and others are impractical for when social distancing is a survival skill. I was surprised to learn Dr. Newport is a computer science professor. Nonetheless, I did glean useful ideas to implement to move more of my time toward high-value activities. This book came out years ago and the Social Media 2.0 behemoths' actions selling us to their revenue sources are glaringly apparent now: Twitter refusing to make 'show latest tweets' permanently adjustable, Google introducing opt-out notifications on Android phones. They don't want us to have the control we had three years ago, a month ago, even, as long as we use them.
The electronic version is structured oddly, over a dozen pages at the end, one footnote per page. I was astonished to have reached 'Conclusion' at 73% completion.