Digital Minimalism

“We do not belong”
: quoted in Gros, A Philosophy of Walking, 18.

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“I think that I cannot preserve”
: Thoreau, “Walking.”
Dwight Eisenhower leveraged
: Kethledge and Erwin, Lead Yourself
First, 35.
Abraham Lincoln had a habit
: Cali, “Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation.”
CHAPTER 5: DON’T CLICK “LIKE”
ESPN aired what has to be one of the strangest sporting events
:
“2007 USARPS Title Match,” YouTube video, 3:58, recorded July 7, 2007,
posted by “usarpsleague,” October 8, 2007,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eanWnL3FtM
.
the role of skill becomes
: For more on the claim that high-ranked
players perform consistently better than what would be expected if the
game’s outcome were random, see Alex Mayyasi, “Inside the World of
Professional Rock Paper Scissors,” Priceonomics, April 26, 2016,
https://priceonomics.com/the-world-of-competitive-rock-paper-scissors
.
In a promotional video
: “Street rps,” YouTube video, 1:24, posted by
“usrpsleague,” January 18, 2009, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6QWPbi3-nlc
.
“man is by nature a social animal”
: Aristotle, Politics: Books I., III.,
IV. (VII.), trans. W. E. Bolland (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1877),
112.
published a pair of papers
: Gordon L. Shulman, Maurizio Corbetta,
Randy Lee Buckner, Julie A. Fiez, Francis M. Miezin, Marcus E. Raichle,
and Steven E. Petersen, “Common Blood Flow Changes across Visual Tasks:
I. Increases in Subcortical Structures and Cerebellum but Not in Nonvisual
Cortex,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 9, no. 5 (October 1997): 624–
47, 
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.1997.9.5.624
; Gordon L. Shulman, Julie A.
Fiez, Maurizio Corbetta, Randy L. Buckner, Francis M. Miezin, Marcus E.
Raichle, and Steven E. Petersen, “Common Blood Flow Changes across
Visual Tasks: II. Decreases in Cerebral Cortex,” Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience 9, no. 5 (October 1997): 648–63,
doi:10.1162/jocn.1997.9.5.648.