How To Focus Your Attention and Prevent Burnout with Digital Minimalism
Here are my musings on how we can take back control of our attention and place it where we can flourish as humans. With extracts from ‘Digital Minimalism’. “Declaring freedom from your smartphone is probably the most serious step you can take toward embracing the attention resistance. This follows because smartphones are the preferred Trojan horse of the digital attention economy.” Cal Newport YOUR ATTENTION IN A LOPSIDED ARMS RACE “The fact that our humanity was routed by these tools over the past decade should come as no surprise. As I just detailed, we’ve been engaging in a lopsided arms race in which the technologies encroaching on our autonomy were preying with increasing precision on deep-seated vulnerabilities in our brains, while we still naively believed that we were just fiddling with fun gifts handed down from the nerd gods. When Bill Maher joked that the App Store was coming for our souls, he was actually onto something. As Socrates explained to Phaedrus in Pla