![]() ![]() A technology offers you core value if it significantly impacts a part of your life that you couldn’t do without - a strand of activity twined around your definition of a life well-lived. With this issue in mind, I’ve sometimes found it helpful to introduce more variation into what I mean by “value” when assessing tools. Consider, for example, the following three different types of benefits a digital technology can provide: ![]() (Everything you use probably offers you some value why else would you use it?) ![]() Measuring whether a given digital tool provides “value” to your life can be a fruitless exercise - the term is simply too vague, and applies to too many things, for it to support hard decisions about what can lay claim to your time and attention. The idea sounds simple when presented at the high-level, but in practice it dissolves into complexities. One such complexity, which I want to explore here, is the notion of “value.” Digital minimalists carefully curate these technologies to best support things they value. The core idea of digital minimalism is to be more intentional about technology in your life. ![]()
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