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Digital Decluttering

Get Out of the Rabbit Hole

Thirty days without social media apps on my smartphone. Why should I do something like that?

Dr. Marcus Raitner

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Thirty days ago I deleted Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram from my iPhone. This was the beginning of the process of digital decluttering, which Cal Newport suggests to start with in his highly recommendable book “Digital Minimalism” ( Amazon Affiliate-Link). For a period of 30 days, one dispenses with optional technologies and uses this time to devote oneself to other activities and behaviors. With the clarity of this 30-day abstinence, you then determine for each technology how it enriches your life, whether it is the best technology to do so, and if so, how it can be used optimally.

Digital minimalism definitively does not reject innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage in those tools.

Cal Newport (2019). Digital Minimalism.

I didn’t completely do without Twitter and LinkedIn during this time, because they are important channels and platforms for me as an author and networker. But without the corresponding apps and their messages…

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