notes from digital minimalism episode of note to self


it's not just the time that it takes up it actually seems to have especially for younger people, a shift to the way they approach life that, in essence becomes. In this game, an always available escape that prevents you from confronting hard things in your life, confronting your own thoughts and doing the hard work of actually developing activities to couldn't be the foundation of a more resilient and robust life. And so, the biggest challenge people had when they began to really scale back to mindless distractions was figuring out what am I supposed to do instead.


High quality leisure is something as important activities that you do for no other reason than their intrinsic quality like mastering, how to cook or a particular craft or an instrument or sport or whatever it is but something that you just appreciate. Just for the sake of its intrinsic quality. This is really crucial to having this sense of robustness, to be able to get through the ups and downs in life.

The issue is figuring out what to do, instead of looking at Facebook instead figuring out what it is that's more important to you than swiping Instagram or checking what the latest breaking news is on Twitter.

It's that, what I want to do instead.

Instead of the two three hours I've been spending per day staring at my screen. That's really hard. And it takes people some time to figure it out. And so I expand that about the 30 days. And that seems to be about the minimum required for a lot of people to really come away from this experiment feeling confident and this is what I want to do with my time and so because of that. I can be much more bold and cutting back my tech to serve those purposes.