small changes are not enough to solve our big issues with new technologies. (Location 427)

Digital Minimalism 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, and then happily miss out on everything else. (Location 435)

Even when a new technology promises to support something the minimalist values, it must still pass a stricter test: Is this the best way to use technology to support this value? (Location 440)

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this minimalist philosophy contrasts starkly with the maximalist philosophy that most people deploy by default—a mind-set in which any potential for benefit is enough to start using a technology that catches your attention. (Location 444)

minimalists don’t mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good. (Location 452)

he quit all social media to pursue more direct and effective ways to help his career, connect with other people, and be entertained. (Location 459)

Thoreau’s purpose in these tables is to capture precisely (not poetically or philosophically) how much it cost to support his life at Walden Pond—a lifestyle that, as he argues at length in this first chapter, satisfies all the basic human needs: food, shelter, warmth, and so on. (Location 556)

How much of his time must be sacrificed to support his minimalist lifestyle? (Location 559)

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” (Location 563)

consider the technology optional unless its temporary removal would harm or significantly disrupt the daily operation of your professional or personal life. (Location 841)