This double-edged sword was brought home for me recently after reading three books, each about building one’s life around less: Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Jenny O’Dell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, and Svend Brinkmann’s Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in the Age of Excess. The flip side of all that digital abundance is that we often feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out from it all. Our digital lives today are seemingly limitless worlds of people to follow, music to stream, articles to read, and so on.
