Embodying Digital Minimalism

Nothing is more important than your time, attention, and energy. Much of the internet is built to steal them from you, these resources are built to return them to you.

Imagine if all your time lost to scrolling, surfing, and swiping were returned to you. Imagine what you could do, imagine who you could be. Imagine the quality of your leisure, your relationships, your work, your state of mind.

Here are resources designed to help you do exactly that.

I believe that it’s nearly impossible to live a happy, balanced, and powerful life in the 21st century without some deliberate reflection and restraint around our use of digital technology. The challenge isn’t only personal—it’s structural. Attention conglomerates like Meta and Google have deployed vast teams and powerful algorithms to undermine our agency, and exploit human vulnerabilities in their pursuit of capturing human attention. While I hope that one day laws and large-scale reforms will help curb the excesses of the attention economy, I’m convinced that personal responsibility buttressed by community support is a major lever for change that can be implemented to great effect. The purpose of the resources you find here is to put this lever within the immediate grasp of all.  

To be clear, the end point is not a rejection of technology, but rather the alignment of your technology use with your personal values and goals. Cal Newport coined the term “digital minimalism” to describe this kind of intentional relationship with technology. I love his framing and have applied my own work in the worlds of therapy and meditation in service of helping people enact this way of life for themselves. 

A Self-Paced Course — Thanks to generous support from Colin Bekemeyer I was given the opportunity to create a do-it-yourself app based course that synthesizes the best of my own learning on the topics of overcoming tech addiction and embodying digital minimalism.

Community Events — Periodically I host Digital Detoxes and other live events (both online and in-person) to help people create better tech habits with the support of community.