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📆 2016, The year I slowly became more active on social media and spent less time doing what I truly love. Social media has helped my career beyond belief in the past few years (now 2021). However, it took me 5 years to realize I enjoyed having a much reduced social presence. My day job has always been IT or security-related, and I always enjoyed spending my downtime learning to code and tinkering with hardware, working on creative technology projects. I never watched TV or movies, just occasionally. I spent more time feeding into my creative side and increasing my knowledge on art, history, and psychology (when I wasn’t learning something tech-related of course).
Welp, I’m going back to “back in the days”!
💡Why
Since, 2020/2021 I have been on a journey of…
- digital minimalism
- setting boundaries
- communication overload
- from folks who can be overly obsessive and aggressive about communication response times
- from folks who feel entitled to others time, money, life, etc
- taking a step back from social media
- moving more towards privacy-first life
- pursuing authentic experiences and relationships.
📚Background & Resources
I decided to begin a minimalistic lifestyle in ~2015, and later digital minimalism around 2019. However, the decision to share and write about this journey was more so recently inspired by…
- Digital Minimalism – Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Cal Newport On Why You Should Quit Social Media, ‘Digital Minimalism’ + More
- A World Without Email Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
And because I am a Infosec & privacy geek – pretty much everything related to privacy, controlling my own data, controlling my interactions, and presence on the internet
- The Social Dilemma
- Digital Minimalism: Your Path to Control, Freedom, & Privacy by Techlore
🗣My Communication Framework
I own 3 technical devices. I use only 1 daily.
I do not have any social media apps on my cellphone.
All mobile and desktop notifications are disabled, at all times. Except for my calendar app. I use 2 email services. I check email 1-2 times a day. Yes, that’s it.
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Family, Friends, Foe’s, Nosey folks, and Professional Gossipers
If you have written me on Facebook, Linkedin, IG, Whatsapp, or Telegram from 2020 through Q1 2022, there’s a 90% chance I have not seen your messages. I deleted all social media apps from my cellphone and only checked 3 specific communication applications occasionally during this time.