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Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport is a Computer Science Professor at Georgetown university Part 1: Foundations Chapter 1: A lopsided arms race After 2016, there were many questions raised about the role of technology on well-being, on more than just productivity. People were using technology more than they wanted to. Technology started taking away people’s autonomy. The people who are glued to their phones are not weak willed. When we think how we got to a place where we use tech so much, it's very deliberate. It was created by the social media companies. When Facebook was getting ready for its IPO, it had to get its revenues up. The like button became the transformational feature. They re-engineered their feed to be less about what you and your friends were posting and more about social rewards triggering you to check it all the time. Every time you logged in, you got a stream of cumulative social approval indicators. Instead of being a fun thing, it became a drug. Once we got trained for it, we...
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Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

"Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing—but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates."   we are desperately concerned with the vast mass of our people who, thwarted through lack of interest or opportunity, or both, do not participate in the endless responsibilities of citizenship and are resigned to lives determined by others. To lose your "identity" as a citizen of democracy is but a step from losing your identity as a person. People react to this frustration by not acting at all. Status quo does not allow ideas of revolution to grow because its a threat to the people in power. Revolution by the Have-Nots also induces a paranoid fear; now, therefore, we find every corrupt and repressive government the world around saying to us, "Give us money and soldiers or there will be a r...
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Letters from a self made merchant to his son

1. Don't mix pleasure with business. Don't date or be romantically interested in anyone you meet through work. 2. People who want to reach work late and leave as early as possible aren't 100% committed to the job and will cut corners wherever they can. 3. You have to learn to work under other people. "There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world, unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable" 4. When you're in the right you can afford to keep your temper and when you're in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it. 5. One can't judge people who they are sentimentally attached with rationally 6. There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give the man a chance to be foolish 7. Men and women aren't great judges of character when it comes to choosing a life partner. Its wise to get them prospected by your parents 8.Most people don't work to their full potential. They get satisfied too easil...
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12 rules for life- Jordan Peterson

Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back. Your posture sends a message about your position in the social hierarchy to others as well as yourself. By standing up straight, you become more confident. Rule 2: Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping A lot of people take better care of their pets, their family members than they take care of themselves.There's no reason to treat yourself worse than you treat others. Be kind and understanding with yourself. Rule 3: Make friends with people who want the best for you Good people make friends with other good people. They discard people who are negative or have a bad effect on them. Surrounding yourself with good, successful people puts an invisible pressure on you to do better unlike surrounding yourself with degenerates, who have a negative influence on you. Rule 4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today Rule 5: Do not let  your children do anything that makes you d...
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