Quotes About Values

Identifying what matters most in your life,

To allow an optional technology back into your life at the end of the digital declutter, it must: Serve something you deeply value (offering some benefit is not enough). Be the best way to use technology to serve this value (if it's not, replace it with something better). Have a role in your life that is constrained with a standard operating procedure that specifies when and how you use it.

No one, of course, signed up for this loss of control. They downloaded the apps and set up accounts for good reasons, only to discover, with grim irony, that these services were beginning to undermine the very values that made them appealing in the first place: they joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then ended up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with the friend sitting across the table.

Digital minimalists see new technologies as tools to be used to support things they deeply value—not as sources of value themselves.

Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological. Even worse, to support deep work often requires the rejection of much of what is new and high-tech. Deep work is exiled in favor of more distracting high-tech behaviors, like the professional use of social media, not because the former is empirically inferior to the latter.

Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological.

In my work on this topic, I've become convinced that what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

Does this technology directly support something that I deeply value? This is the only condition on which you should let one of these tools into your life.

I've become convinced that what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

The Amish, it turns out, do something that's both shockingly radical and simple in our age of impulsive and complicated consumerism: they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

As Gallagher summarizes: "Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.

We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims...

Gallagher'in veciz bir ?ekilde özetledi?i gibi: Kim oldu?unuz, ne dü?ündü?ünüz, ne hissetti?iniz, ne yapt???n?z, neyi sevdi?iniz odakland???n?z ?eylerin toplam?d?r.

Put another way: minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

We justify many of the technologies that tyrannize our time and attention with some tangential connection to something we care about.

La cultura è un sistema di limitazioni imposte al comportamento naturale dell'uomo: i non-acculturati, coloro che non sono in grado o rifiutano di interiorizzare i principi morali limitatori, e dunque di autoregolarsi, vengono governati con lo strumento della coercizione.

Of course, the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.