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Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism • Create Time For Solitude • Stop Socializing On Social Media
Description
Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He's also a writer who focuses on the impact of technology on society.
Cal is the author of six books, including, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World.
You won't find Cal on social media but he's been blogging at calnewport.com for over a decade.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why Cal has avoided social media all these years
- How the Facebook "like" button changed social media
- What is web 2.0?
- Stop socializing on social media
- Breaking the compulsion cycle
- Why growing your email list is important
- Digital Minimalism defined
- The digital declutter experiment
- Why the younger generation struggles more without screen time
- Planning analog time vs. digital time
- Create time for solitude
- The ritual of journaling
- How the Amish evaluate community needs
- Be intentional when using technology
- Use social media like a professional
- Approaching Instagram in a healthy way
- The key idea of minimalism
- Don't give adolescents a smartphone
- Anxiety on the rise in adolescents
- The evolution of smartphones
- Dumbing down your smartphone
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Related links:
Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism (book)
Cal Newport - Deep Work (book)
Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs (book)
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