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

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

Review of 'Digital Minimalism' on 'Goodreads'

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.