Digital Minimalism

“The relationship between our deeply human sociality and modern digital communication tools is fraught and can produce significant issues in your life if not handled carefully. You cannot expect an app dreamed up in a dorm room, or among the Ping-Pong tables of a Silicon Valley incubator, to successfully replace the types of rich interactions to which we’ve painstakingly adapted over millennia. Our sociality is simply too complex to be outsourced to a social network or reduced to instant messages and emojis. To click Like, within the precise definition of the Information Theory, is literally the least informative type of non-trivial communication, providing only a minimal one bit of information about the state of the sender to the receiver. To replace this rich flow with a single bit is the ultimate insult to our social processing machinery. Don’t click Like, ever.”