286: Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism • Create Time For Solitude • Stop Socializing On Social Media
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He's also a writer who focuses on the impact of technology on society.
Cal is the author of six books, including, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World.
You won't find Cal on social media but he's been blogging at calnewport.com for over a decade.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why Cal has avoided social media all these years
- How the Facebook “like” button changed social media
- What is web 2.0?
- Stop socializing on social media
- Breaking the compulsion cycle
- Why growing your email list is important
- Digital Minimalism defined
- The digital declutter experiment
- Why the younger generation struggles more without screen time
- Planning analog time vs. digital time
- Create time for solitude
- The ritual of journaling
- How the Amish evaluate community needs
- Be intentional when using technology
- Use social media like a professional
- Approaching Instagram in a healthy way
- The key idea of minimalism
- Don’t give adolescents a smartphone
- Anxiety on the rise in adolescents
- The evolution of smartphones
- Dumbing down your smartphone
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Related links:
Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism (book)
Cal Newport - Deep Work (book)
Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs (book)
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| 0:00.0 | that reinvention really changed our relationship with our phone. |
| 0:03.6 | So it was social media and in particular this focus on the social approval indicators |
| 0:07.1 | that change from being tools that we deploy occasionally into these constant |
| 0:10.8 | companions that we're looking at all the time. Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode |
| 0:20.8 | 286. |
| 0:22.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marty Wasserman, and we are here to take your health |
| 0:25.8 | to the next level. |
| 0:27.3 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:31.4 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, |
| 0:33.7 | fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:35.8 | And this week our featured guest is Cal Newport. |
| 0:38.3 | He's an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. |
| 0:42.1 | He's also a writer who focuses on the impact of technology on society. |
| 0:45.8 | Cal is the author of six books including most recently the New York Times Best Selling Book, |
| 0:50.8 | Digital Minimalism, choosing a focused life in a noisy world. |
| 0:54.0 | And this book is the focus of today's show. |
| 0:56.0 | You won't find Cal on social media, |
| 0:58.0 | but he's been blogging at Cal Newport.com for over a decade. |
| 1:01.0 | This is such a great topic to bring on to the |
| 1:03.6 | podcast as so many times on the show we've discussed different tips and |
| 1:06.7 | strategies for reducing exposure to social media and our devices but this time |
| 1:12.3 | what Cal's talking about is re-evaluating your whole |
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