We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that

digital minimalism, and it applies the belief that less can be more to our relationship with digital tools.

Part 1 concludes by introducing my suggested method for adopting this philosophy: the digital declutter.