this book should have been a blog post, or an essay, or even just a long bullet list. it speaks of an important topic but does it in so many pages! about two thirds of the text could and should have been dropped. there are however readers out there who like this kind of «self-improvement journey», long texts must create a kind of feeling of important achievemwnt in them. ok.

with some of the advices and suggestions i could not agree. like agressive removing of files, prefering online media rental services to owning, downloading and keeping favourive media, relying on proprietary cloud services? this is opposite to what i would call true digital minimalism, because for me, it goes together with digital freedom. not for the authors of this book, evidently.

however, there are some really good suggestions too.

now, i want to read cal newport's classical «digital minimalism».

@jonn lol, i am not ready to say exactly that… but i love the pun!

seriously though, as i mentioned in some other comment here: [digital] minimalism is about my control, and this always comes together with attention to digital freedoms.

authors of this book, and this flavor of minimalism are consumers, and just like any consumer will abandon their digital freedoms for ease of use.

with that i disagree pationately. and yes, maybe that can be called as «not minimalist enough» :-)