{"id":8383,"date":"2019-06-16T19:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2019-06-16T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:58:20","slug":"digital-minimalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"DIGITAL MINIMALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B07DBRBP7G\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Digital Minimalism<\/em> is Cal Newport&#8217;s latest book.\u00a0 I interviewed him on his previous book,<em> Deep Work<\/em> (see link below).\u00a0 Both are absolutely terrific. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am gladly not on Twitter or Facebook, though some have tried to convince me otherwise.\u00a0 I am on LinkedIn and obviously have some blogs.\u00a0 These fit what I do.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; cursor: text; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\">I&#8217;ve read several books and essays on the perils of social media.\u00a0 All have been great, but Cal&#8217;s latest book and probably Neil Postman&#8217;s, <em>Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology<\/em> are now my favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Newport is hardly a Luddite, but he is a wise guide in helping us to think intentionally about how we spend our time.\u00a0 If you look at Newport&#8217;s prodigious<\/strong> <strong>output of both popular and scholarly work, you know that he is practicing what he preaches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly recommended!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2016\/04\/09\/cal-newport-focused-success-in-a-distracted-world\/\">https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2016\/04\/09\/cal-newport-focused-success-in-a-distracted-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Minimalism is Cal Newport&#8217;s latest book.\u00a0 I interviewed him on his previous book, Deep Work (see link below).\u00a0 Both are absolutely terrific. \u00a0 I am gladly not on Twitter or Facebook, though some have tried to convince me otherwise.\u00a0 I am on LinkedIn and obviously have some blogs.\u00a0 These fit what I do.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,146,82,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-consumerism","category-technology","category-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8385,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}