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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

✍️ Top Quotes From the Book

• In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts.
• “Philip Morris just wanted your lungs,” Maher concludes. “The App Store wants your soul.”
• in many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features.
• The other side of this evolutionary bargain, of course, is that a lack of positive feedback creates a sense of distress.
• To reestablish control, we need to move beyond tweaks and instead rebuild our relationship with technology from scratch, using our deeply held values as a foundation.
• 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? If the answer is no, the minimalist will set to work trying to optimize the tech, or search out a better option.
• Put another way: 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.
• As a father, teaching his kids an important lesson about embracing life beyond the screen was far more important than faster typing.
• Principle #1: Clutter is costly.
• Principle #2: Optimization is important.
• Principle #3: Intentionality is satisfying.
• 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.
• These costs, of course, also tend to compound.