Digital Minimalism

“It’s silly, I know, but the first few weeks felt rough”
: Quotes from
Paul come from email correspondence with the author that was conducted
primarily in December 2015.
“I feel so much better”
: Daniel Clough, “Feature Phones Aren’t Just for
Hipsters,” November 20, 2015, 
http://danielclough.com/feature-phones-
arent-just-for-hipsters
.
“is not as drastic a regression”
: Vlad Savov, “It’s Time to Bring Back
the Dumb Phone,” The Verge, January 31, 2017,
https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/31/14450710/bring-back-the-dumb-
phone
.
These products, which include
: For details on the Light Phone, see
https://www.thelightphone.com
.
“Quickly it became obvious”
: “About,” Light Phone,
https://www.thelightphone.com/about
.

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“Your [clock symbol]”
: “About,” Light Phone.
CONCLUSION
“experienced the epiphany”
: Simon Winchester, The Men Who United
the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and
the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible (New York: HarperCollins, 2013),
338. For the reader interested in a detailed account of the telegraph’s
invention and subsequent impact, see Winchester, The Men, 335–57; Tom
Standage, The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph
and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers (New York: Walker & Co.,
1998).
“If the presence of electricity”
: Winchester, The Men, 339.
“vatic revelation”
: Winchester, The Men, 339.
“formed a simple declarative exclamation”
: Winchester, The Men,
347.