Digital Minimalism
- Ümran Tunçbilek Çelebi
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min read
Cal Newport defines this concept in his book “Digital Minimalism” as follows: a philosophy of using technology that requires you to spend your online time focusing on a small number of activities that benefit what you value and turn your back on everything else. How can we incorporate this philosophy, which keeps the concepts of simplicity and simplicity at the center, into our lives, especially in this period when we live intertwined with technology due to the pandemic?
We can start by observing our personal use of technology. What tools and applications do we use? How much time do we spend on screens on a daily basis? How much of our total screen time we “really” need; how much is "habit"?
After realizing how much time we spend in the digital world; “What would we do if we could spare this time for ourselves?” We can make a list. Thus, we can reduce the time spent in digital and devote time to the things we really want to do.
We can review our findings regarding technology usage and time periods and reduce the number of applications we use. Newport recommends deleting the applications such as facebook, twitter, and instagram, which are spent a lot of time, completely from the phone and logging in to these applications via the web. Alternatively, we can set daily limits for these applications and proceed in line with these limits.
On a daily basis, we can set aside time away from “phone, computer and internet”. During this time, we can find the opportunity to stay with ourselves and focus on our thoughts. This state of being alone, which we perform regularly, supports us in “problem solving skills, making sense of our emotions and thus strengthening our relationships”.
In addition to all these, we can go beyond “experiencing life only through a screen” by dealing with works that require manual dexterity. Emphasizing that we transform in the process of evolution in a way that we experience and change our environment, Newport underlines that we need this kind of work, which he calls "quality leisure activities that provide benefits."
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