Our culture has tried this for the past few years: it isn’t working. What would you say to someone who thinks that they should just use self-control to fight digital distraction distractions?
There’s a reason why the Ron Swanson character on Parks and Recreation didn’t own a smartphone - when you’re carving a canoe you don’t feel the itch to idly scroll through Twitter. On the positive side of the ledger, I was pleased to discover how quickly people could lose their “taste” for low quality digital distraction when they began to cultivate high quality analog alternatives for their leisure time. They were forced into these changes, in part, because their venture investors wanted a big return, which required a big IPO, which required a big revenue bump. On the negative side of the ledger, I was shocked to learn how some of the social media giants borrowed ideas from Las Vegas casino gambling (in particular, the right way to stagger rewards to keep people compulsively pulling the slot machine handle) to get people to use their apps much more frequently.
What piece of research did you find most astounding while writing Digital Minimalism ? So this week we sat down with Cal to learn more about the philosophy of digital minimalism and how it can help us create a more intentional relationship and reclaim our time and attention for the things that matter most to us.
However, despite Deep Work’s guidance to tackle digital distraction at work, many readers were left asking: ‘how do we manage the electronic business in our personal lives?’Īnd that’s exactly the question Newport’s latest book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World tries to answer. Bestselling author of Deep Work and professor of computer science at Georgetown University, Cal’s on a mission to help you reclaim your attention from digital clutter so that you can spend it on the things that matter.Ĭal Newport first wrote Deep Work, a book that sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces work of far higher value than the electronic busyness that fills most of our work days. We fear being disconnected or left behind, so we keep scrolling and clicking.Įnter Cal Newport.
You’ve likely also experienced the stress and inability to focus that comes along with our noisy digital lives.Įven when we know we’re spending too much time online or on our phones, the thought of cutting out these technologies can seem daunting or simply impossible. By now you’re probably aware that technology can have a negative impact on your health.
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