Digital Minimalism

: Allen, “Sean Parker Unloads.”
CHAPTER 2: DIGITAL MINIMALISM
: Leonid Bershidsky, “How I
Kicked the Smartphone Addiction—and You Can Too,” New York Post,
September 2, 2017, 
http://nypost.com/2017/09/02/how-i-kicked-the-
smartphone-addiction-and-you-can-too
.
minimalists cited throughout this chapter come from email interactions
with the author.
: Thoreau, Walden, 26–27.
: Thoreau, Walden, 59.
: Thoreau, Walden, 39.
Philosophy of Walking (London: Verso, 2014), 90.
: Thoreau, Walden, 2.
: Max
Brooks, interview by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO,
November 17, 2017.
Facebook’s Mission Statement?,” FAQs, Facebook Investor Relations,
https://investor.fb.com/resources/default.aspx
, accessed July 11, 2018.
Society, 4th ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), ix.
Technology Wants (New York: Viking, 2010), 217.
: Kelly, What Technology Wants, 219.
is actually talking about a strict Mennonite family instead of an Amish
family, but the border between strict Mennonites and normal Amish is
blurred, so the example is relevant for our purposes.
: “Amish hacking”: Jeff Brady, “Amish Community Not
Anti-Technology, Just More Thoughtful,” All Things Considered, NPR,

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September 2, 2013,
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/09/02/217287028/
amish-community-not-anti-technology-just-more-thoughtful
.
: Brady, “Amish Community Not Anti-
Technology.”
Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt, The Amish (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2013), 325.
217.
Talk of the Nation, NPR, June 7, 2006,
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5455572
.
:
For more details on Amish society, including the operation of the Ordnung
and the relative powerlessness of women, see the following survey by David
Friedman:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_systems_
very_different_12/Book_Draft/Systems/AmishChapter.html
.
interview by the author, December 16, 2017.
CHAPTER 3: THE DIGITAL DECLUTTER
: Emily Cochrane, “A Call to Cut
Back Online Addictions: Pitted Against Just One More Click,” New York
Times, February 4, 2018,
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/us/politics/online-addictions-cut-
back-screen-time.html
.
quotes in this chapter from digital declutter experiment participants, come
from email correspondence with the author between December 2017 and
February 2018.
: Cochrane,
“Call to Cut Back.”
CHAPTER 4: SPEND TIME ALONE
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
2008), 48.
: Miller, President Lincoln,
49. Miller cites the diary of Senator Browning as his source. For more detail,
see The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, vol. 1, ed. Theodore Calvin
Pease and James G. Randall (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library,
1925–33), 476.

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Lincoln’s White House,” White House History 25 (Spring 2009),
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/abraham-lincolns-white-house
.
Holzer, “Abraham Lincoln’s White House,” see fifth photo.