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anjalisudarsan's review against another edition
5.0
I picked this book up as I was already on a path to not consuming content much, just creating my own. Cal gave some great anecdotes, of an artist doing the same thing as I do (post, don't scroll).
Digital minimalism seems like an obvious concept, but I love that Cal Newport explores ways to make the most of your time without really making like a radical change (like fully cutting your phone out). My favourite quotes:
- "all of humanity's problems stems from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" (Blaise Pascal)
- "Only thoughts reached by walking have value"
- The more time you use on social media, the less time you tend to devote to offline interactions
- The ability for social media to make us feel ostracised, inadequate, as well as to stroke exhausting outrage, inflame our worst tribal instincts, and perhaps even degrade the democratic process, itself.
- A life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose other than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates
- High quality leisure is essential to a life well lived.
So, yes, I'll be living life noise free more often.
Digital minimalism seems like an obvious concept, but I love that Cal Newport explores ways to make the most of your time without really making like a radical change (like fully cutting your phone out). My favourite quotes:
- "all of humanity's problems stems from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" (Blaise Pascal)
- "Only thoughts reached by walking have value"
- The more time you use on social media, the less time you tend to devote to offline interactions
- The ability for social media to make us feel ostracised, inadequate, as well as to stroke exhausting outrage, inflame our worst tribal instincts, and perhaps even degrade the democratic process, itself.
- A life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose other than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates
- High quality leisure is essential to a life well lived.
So, yes, I'll be living life noise free more often.
barning's review against another edition
5.0
Dieses Buch spricht in dein Gewissen. Ja, du verbringst zu viel Zeit mit irgendwelchen Kram, der am Bildschirm passiert.
Anstatt zu belehren wird hier eher der Finger in die Wunde gelegt, mit Beispielen und Quellen bewiesen und am Ende mit Lösungsvorschlägen geholfen. Das Buch ist ein einziges großes Argument für die verringerung der Bildschirmzeit.
Es ist vielleicht nicht das beste Buch, dass man in einer Pandemie lesen kann (ich vermisse jetzt meinen lokalen Spieleladen mit seinen Brettspieleabenden), doch gerade in dieser Zeit versacken wahrscheinlich noch eher vor Netflix, anstatt sinnvolle Dinge zu tun, die glücklich machen.
Anstatt zu belehren wird hier eher der Finger in die Wunde gelegt, mit Beispielen und Quellen bewiesen und am Ende mit Lösungsvorschlägen geholfen. Das Buch ist ein einziges großes Argument für die verringerung der Bildschirmzeit.
Es ist vielleicht nicht das beste Buch, dass man in einer Pandemie lesen kann (ich vermisse jetzt meinen lokalen Spieleladen mit seinen Brettspieleabenden), doch gerade in dieser Zeit versacken wahrscheinlich noch eher vor Netflix, anstatt sinnvolle Dinge zu tun, die glücklich machen.
asriram's review against another edition
4.0
A good book, with some interesting thoughts on how to pull ourselves away from the addictive grasp of digital technologies that are taking away our time, and properly extract the value from these technologies that they possess
josiesweeney's review against another edition
Just like Atomic Habits, this book goes nowhere fast. He depends on interviews and stories that don’t honestly drive the point home.
Newport is fine when it comes to the large view. But when it comes to expanding on anything he just keeps talking in varying directions. I fall asleep when reading this book.
Newport is fine when it comes to the large view. But when it comes to expanding on anything he just keeps talking in varying directions. I fall asleep when reading this book.
thechanelmuse's review against another edition
4.0
“...Publishers considered their readers to be their customers, and saw their goal as providing a product good enough to convince people to pay to read it. [Benjamin] Day’s innovation [in 1830] was to realize that his readers could become his product and the advertisers his customers. His goal became to sell as many minutes of his readers’ attention as possible to the advertisers. To do so, he lowered the price of the [New York] Sun to a penny and pushed more mass interest stories. ‘He was the first person to really appreciate the idea—you gather a crowd, and you’re not interested in that crowd for its money,” Wu explained in a speech, 'but because you can resell them to someone else who wants their attention.'
“This business model caught on, sparking the tabloid wars of the nineteenth century. It was then adopted by the radio and television industries in the twentieth century, where it was pushed to new extremes as these emerging mass media technologies were wielded to gather crowds of unprecedented size. [...]
“The iPhone, and the imitators that soon followed, enabled the attention economy to shift from its historical position as a profitable but somewhat niche sector to one of the most powerful forces in our economy. At the core of this shift was the smartphone’s ability to deliver advertisements to users at all points during their day, as well as to help services gather data from these users to target those advertisements with unprecedented precision. It turns out that there remained vast reservoirs of human attention that traditional tools like newspapers, magazines, television shows, and billboards had been unable to tap. The smartphone helped companies like Google and Facebook storm these remaining redoubts of unmolested focus and start ransacking—generating massive new fortunes in the process.”
This book is a must-read.
“This business model caught on, sparking the tabloid wars of the nineteenth century. It was then adopted by the radio and television industries in the twentieth century, where it was pushed to new extremes as these emerging mass media technologies were wielded to gather crowds of unprecedented size. [...]
“The iPhone, and the imitators that soon followed, enabled the attention economy to shift from its historical position as a profitable but somewhat niche sector to one of the most powerful forces in our economy. At the core of this shift was the smartphone’s ability to deliver advertisements to users at all points during their day, as well as to help services gather data from these users to target those advertisements with unprecedented precision. It turns out that there remained vast reservoirs of human attention that traditional tools like newspapers, magazines, television shows, and billboards had been unable to tap. The smartphone helped companies like Google and Facebook storm these remaining redoubts of unmolested focus and start ransacking—generating massive new fortunes in the process.”
This book is a must-read.
katiegilley's review against another edition
4.0
Newport continues to make me think about how my habits and values work together -- or against each other! I loved his premise of thinking about how we can use social media and our phones to help us meet our big goals, instead of letting all of the distractions get in our way. It was especially helpful to learn about the ways that social media companies use human psychology to keep our eyes glued to the screens. This book was full of practical advice on how to use social media in moderation and other analog activities that provide richer and more fulfilling experiences.
rayyanmz's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Give the most insights and the underlying issues on digital consumerism along with the practical approach on how to start cultivating digital minimalism in your life.
implementing this philosophy is largely an exercise in pragmatism"
love that the author left this approach subjected to the readers choice without the unnecessary obnoxious stress on the readers to employ this approach in their life.
I would love to read other work from this author that has been mentioned in this book entitled Deep Work.
floriankogler's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.25