This blog posts on Mondays. As of
2019 the second Monday of the month is devoted to my writing workshop students
and anyone else interested in creative writing. (You can find my workshop
schedule and many more resources for writers on my workshop page.)
Those of you who follow me here know
that I am fascinated by attentional management and the creative process. Of
late I have posted here on my advances in email management;
finding time for
writing (gimungous swaths of it!); and most recently, my
distraction-free smartphone (which post includes an app evaluation
flowchart to tailor-make your own, should you feel so inclined).
That last post about the smartphone appeared on the eve of
the publication of Cal Newport’s Digital
Minimalism. Because I am a fan of Newport’s books, especially Deep Work, which I
recommend as vital reading for writers, of any age and any level of experience,
I expected Digital Minimalism to be good. As I noted in that post, if
nothing else, in broadening our ability to think about the technology we use,
Newport’s term “digital minimalism” is an important contribution in itself.
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