Book
Newport C. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. New York: Portfolio/Penguin; 2019. 284 p.
Why we cite it
A book by Cal Newport on technology use. In the book’s account, a person should deliberately choose which digital tools add enough value to justify their costs and use those tools in constrained, optimized ways, beginning with a 30-day “digital declutter” followed by re-introducing only the technologies that serve core values.
About the author
Cal Newport — BA Dartmouth College (2004), PhD Computer Science MIT (2009). Georgetown University professor. Academic researcher in distributed systems. Parallel career as nonfiction author, with books including Deep Work (2016) and Digital Minimalism (2019).
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