Digital Minimalism

“seriousness of the moment”
: Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation, 4.
just five days at a camp with no phones or internet
: Turkle,
Reclaiming Conversation, 11.
Facebook didn’t invent the “Like” button
: “What’s the History of the
Awesome Button (That Eventually Became the Like Button) on Facebook?,”
Quora, answer by Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, updated October 16, 2014,
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-history-of-the-Awesome-Button-that-
eventually-became-the-Like-button-on-Facebook
.
As Chan explains, many Facebook posts
: Kathy H. Chan, “I Like
This,” Notes, Facebook, February 9, 2009,
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/i-like-this/53024537130
.
“I don’t think we’re meant”
: Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor, S.I.
Newhouse School of Public Communication, phone interview with author,
January 26, 2018.
“Phones have become woven into”
: Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation,
158.
Sherry Turkle calls this effect “phone phobia”
: Turkle, Reclaiming
Conversation, 148.
CHAPTER 6: RECLAIM LEISURE
“The best and most pleasant life”
: Aristotle, Ethics, trans. J. A. K.
Thomson, rev. ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 273.
“activity that is appreciated”
: Aristotle, Ethics, 271.
“worth depends on the existence”
: Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A
Philosophical Guide (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 43.
“source of inward joy”
: Setiya takes the phrase “source of inward joy”
from John Stuart Mill’s self-reported recovery from depression by finding
beauty in poetry—an activity he could pursue purely for the sake of its
beauty. See Setiya, Midlife, 40, 45.