My author website doesn’t provide a personal e-mail address, and I didn’t own my first smartphone until 2012 (when my pregnant wife gave me an ultima… - Cal Newport

The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.

Sizin zamanınız ve dikkatiniz üzerinden kâr elde eden şirketler, ustaca kullandıkları bir pazarlama hilesi sayesinde bugün herkesi şuna inandırmış vaziyetteler: Sosyal medyada yer almadığınızda mutlaka bir şeyleri kaçırır, bir şeylerden mahrum kalırsınız.

the people I knew who signed up for thefacebook.com were almost certainly spending significantly more time playing Snood (a Tetris-style puzzle game that was inexplicably popular)