Newport acknowledges that at some level, many humans are tied to their screens for income and practical tasks. He’s been experimenting with different ways to hack technology to improve productivity and study for years, as the author of Deep Work and a blogger at Study Hacks.ĭrawing on stories from old-timey minimalists such as Henry David Thoreau and more modern do-lessers such as Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, Newport shows how digitally mediated relationships are no replacement for embodied experiences with other humans.īut going cold turkey doesn’t really work. And thanks to Newport’s storytelling, fact-gathering and simple prose, I’m now a devoted digital minimalist.Īs a computer science professor at Georgetown University, Newport is no luddite. I casually picked up Digital Minimalism, thinking, maybe, just maybe, I might possibly think about reducing my screen time next year. Cal Newport’s book about minimizing screen time convinced me to do less in the digital universe
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