{"id":14932,"date":"2019-04-19T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2019\/04\/19\/digital-strategy-version-1\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:51:00","slug":"digital-strategy-version-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2019\/04\/19\/digital-strategy-version-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Strategy, Version 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like that the concept of \u201cdigital minimalism\u201d is catching on as a possible antidote to the palm-reading zombies you see everywhere in public. The term was coined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnewport.com\/\">Cal Newport<\/a>, who has a book of the same name that just came out. (Of course.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to read the book, though I also suspect from the samples I\u2019ve read that there isn\u2019t anything new in there for me, since I\u2019m already a little ways down that road. (\u201cTurn your home screen black and white.\u201d One better, Cal: I don\u2019t have a \u2018home screen\u2019. \u201cLimit your use of Facebook.\u201d Again, check: I deleted my account.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I really want someone to come up with a coherent philosophy and strategy for this stuff. Or perhaps that\u2019s my job, if I want a system that\u2019s really going to fit me and my situation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I\u2019ve come up with a little form that I\u2019m using every work day. Here are the fields in order, clockwise from upper-left:<br \/>\n&#8211; When I\u2019m going to check my e-mail and RSS feeds<br \/>\n&#8211; What times I\u2019m going to be unplugged (offline)<br \/>\n&#8211; Any activities I need to do online (state my intention, go on, do that thing, leave)<br \/>\n&#8211; Ideas to research (so instead of popping online to start searching and browsing, I bank these for when I choose to do that)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1685\/20190419103615-91A504B0-93DB-4B98-A287-119FEA9C981F.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"unplug kit\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not always sticking to it 100%, but it\u2019s really helping me remember during the day what my \u2018meta-intention\u2019 is around using the internet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Does it seem like I\u2019m obsessed with this stuff? I suppose I am \u2014 but there\u2019s so much I want to do in this life, and spending stretches of my day online tends to just leave me feeling regretful and sad.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like that the concept of \u201cdigital minimalism\u201d is catching on as a possible antidote to the palm-reading zombies you see everywhere in public. The term was coined by Cal Newport, who has a book of the same name that just came out. (Of course.) I\u2019d like to read the book, though I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}