Recommendations you can check.
by Cal Newport, 2019
Who uses, recommends or left Digital Minimalism, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
3 people
This is when I first started to notice how much of my experience of life is determined by where and how I direct my attention.
His standing "Reads that lasted" page — books and essays that had a lasting impact on him. The page carries no visible date; 2026-08-20 is its Last-Modified header.
Regardless of your level of "readiness" — whether you already think about your digital life a lot or not — this book could be a tremendous motivator and the beginning of a long journey. Cal talks about social media and electronic devices in the same fashion we tend to talk about food or alcohol or vice in general. It’s a very good book and I wish more people read it.
On his public bookshelf, with his comment.
2026-08-16·rakhim.org ↗
Podcast. Cal Newport’s new book is a great distillation of what I’ve come to believe is the right, sustainable, healthy approach to social media, and technology more broadly. Browse less, make the best of it, and live more.
On his public list of books he has read, with his notes.
2026-08-16·radex.io ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.