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Digital minimalism
150 links saved from 2008 to 2026; 146 with a note, 105 in a Weekly Thing.
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- calnewport.com 13, medium.com 7, theatlantic.com 6, theguardian.com 5, gigaom.com 2
2026
2025
- What '67' Reveals About Childhood Creativity
- More friends, more division: Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
- Does WiFi Make Students Smarter?
- You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.
- One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood
- I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
- kill the metrics in your head | The Roof is on Phire
- The stark difference in smartphone usage among eight-year-olds in less-advantaged and wealthier backgrounds | Irish Independent
- How to have friends past age 30 - by Noah Smith
- The Lost Art of Research as Leisure - Mariam Mahmoud
- The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
- The Imperfectionist: Reality is right here
- The sound of silence
- What really happens inside a dating app - My blog
- You're Being Alienated From Your Own Attention
2024
- Is there more to burnout than working too hard?
- Who Americans spend their time with, by age
- This Is A Tool
- The technology addiction trope
- When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
- The Norwegian ban on smart phones in middle schools
- What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
2023
- Zoom Fatigue is Real, According to Brain Scans
- On Disruption and Distraction
- We were never supposed to see our own faces this much
- The Screens are the Symptom | danah boyd
- We need not all be connected, all the time
- On Kids and Smartphones
- God, My New Phone Is Boring
- The Average Screen Time and Usage by Country
- U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence
- Hanging out: Americans report fewer friends. Could the cure be simple?
- Honestly, it's probably the phones - by Noah Smith
- How Your LED Lights and Screens are Killing You
- Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.
- Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
- A few alternative things you can do when you’re bored (instead of scrolling social media)
- Why are we addicted to junk food?
- YouTube Addiction
- Spend Your Time Intentionally
2022
- Opinion | Americans are spending more time alone. Let's reverse that.
- Burned Out on Your Personal Brand
- The High Cost of Living Your Life Online
- Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
- I'm an addict | Tarun's blog
- Taking a Break from Social Media Makes you Happier and Less Anxious
- Is your phone ruining your creativity?
- Thinking About Friendships
- My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll · Caffeinspiration
- Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.
- What We Lost
- Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen | Psychology
2021
- Is internet addiction eradicating the habit of reading?
- Among many U.S. children, reading for fun has become less common
- The Real Benefits Of Staying Off Social Media
- The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings: A Within-Person Field Experiment - PsycNET
- Essay: The digital death of collecting
- Dopamine, Smartphones & You: A battle for your time - Science in the News
- Revenge Bedtime Procrastination by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study
- Individuals Now Spend More Time On TikTok Than YouTube, Facebook, Netflix–At Least On Android (Report)
- The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated to Turn Hobbies Into Hustles
- Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring
- Podcasts had a bumper 2020
- Social media damages teenagers' mental health, report says
2020
- How I Spend My Attention
- Emotional Compression
- Why we're getting Zoom fatigue
- How to Declutter Your Digital Life & Reclaim Your Attention [Guide]
- A Theory of Zoom Fatigue
- Calm also has a coefficient
- More Evidence of Facebook's Negative Impact - Study Hacks
- Top Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using Facebook - Study Hacks
- How I Stopped Checking My Phone So Much - For The Interested
- The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism | Life and style
2019
- I’m a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here’s What I Learned.
- Time Machines & Species Failure
- If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers - Study Hacks
- On Digital Minimalism, Loneliness and the Joys of True Connection - Study Hacks
- Quitting Analytics
- I Used to Fear Being a Nobody. Then I Left Social Media.
- A Radical Guide to Spending Less Time on Your Phone
- How to Reduce Anxiety Through Meditation and Buddhism
- When Kids Google Themselves
2018
- Join Analog Social Media - Study Hacks
- A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
- The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.
- How we unplug: 7 ways to escape the roiling seas of modern life
- How to be alone: the difference between loneliness and solitude
- Fidget spinners, weighted blankets, and the rise of anxiety consumerism
- Relentlessly Turning Input Knobs To 0
- The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You – Personal Growth
- Fear of missing out
- Digital Wellness for Grown Ups - Study Hacks
- Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018 | Pew Research Center
- Why we owe it to ourselves to spend quiet time alone every day
- dumber phone
- How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time.
- How to Balance Your Media Diet – ART + marketing
- Deep Thinking In The Age of Distraction – The Startup
- Why am I unhappy? A new study explains Americas unhappiness epidemic
- With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there's a likely culprit
- Growing apart and losing touch is human and healthy
2017
- Is the economy suffering from the crisis of attention?
- Quit social media | Dr. Cal Newport | TEDxTysons
- Spend More Time Alone - Study Hacks
- Encourage children to spend more time online, says former GCHQ head | Society
- Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
- iPhone addiction, Scrooge and regret
- Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them
- The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
- Out of control on a river in Egypt
- xkcd: Phone
- On Digital Minimalism - Study Hacks
- On Value and Digital Minimalism - Study Hacks
- Home Screens as Therapy
2016
2015
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2012
2011
- Disconnect Revolution
- What was daily life like before almost everyone had cell phones?
- Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar's Brain
- Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends To 150
- Television viewing time and mortality: the Austral... [Circulation. 2010] - PubMed result
- Why It's Healthy To Completely Unplug (And 6 Steps To Do So)