One of the books I read in the last month is digital minimalism by Cal Newport and it's just really the systematic argument about what smartphones in general but specifically certain unhealthy habits we have with our smartphones

especially including stuff like social media apps what they do to us, the corporate psychological tricks of addictive behavior behind it,

how it dampens our lives, it overstimulates us with a broad range of everybody else's highlight reels such that you begin

to sort of feel like your life isn't living up to what other people's lives are.

I've noticed in myself spending hours a day on social media, like you just get depressed,

you feel like shit, you feel imbalanced.

And then this book makes this really, really important argument about how important our attention

span is, how important solitude is, how important boredom is.

And one thing that the smartphones have done is they've eradicated boredom.

But boredom, it's a form of sort of low-level suffering,

but it is also very generative.

You know, daydreaming, being in solitude solitude being left with your own thoughts for prolonged periods of time

Is something that humans have taken for granted for millennia

But it's something that is increasingly being sort of knocked out of people's lives from social media because the moment you feel the slightest itch of boredom of

melancholy of any negative emotional state.

You know, people in the past have reached for food,

reach for alcohol, reach for drugs.

In today's world, we reach for our smartphone. I mean literally a second of boredom and

your hand just moves down and pulls out the phone and you scroll meaninglessly.

And then you got to ask yourself. this book makes that very clear this digital

minimalism book. The amount of time you put into social media, what do you get back?

You know the average person I don't know everybody's different but let's

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