

Email, text and basically all forms of social media is not conversation, but connection. There is no substitute for face-to-face communication.Solitude encourages your ability to clarify hard problems, to regulate your emotions, to build moral courage, and to strengthen relationships. Digital minimalism is a philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value.These companies profit by maximizing the amount of time users engage with their services. Social media has been engineered to be addicting.In Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport outlines his prescription for a healthier and more productive relationship with technology where greater focus is placed on defining how we use these digital products and services to intentionally enhance the things in life that we value most.

Most of us enjoy the benefits of these free internet innovations without giving serious consideration to mitigating the risks they pose to our social and mental wellbeing. Over the last two decades, social media companies have made trillions profiting off our time and attention.
