{"id":22405,"date":"2019-03-22T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=22405"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:02:32","slug":"the-way-of-the-porsche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/the-way-of-the-porsche\/","title":{"rendered":"The way of the Porsche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cal Newport\u2019s first book we read, Deep Work<\/em>, was a MAJOR game changer for me.\u00a0 I mean like a serious life change. Because of this, I wanted to take this book very seriously. And so I did. I committed to taking this book as seriously as I could and incorporating as much of it into my life as I can.<\/p>\n

To preface, I don\u2019t feel like my digital uses are out of control. But I do know I want to develop as much as deep work into my life as possible. And this is what Digital Minimalism is all about. Taking your digital life out of things that distracts you from things important and into something\u2019s that sends you into o true meaning of satisfaction. It\u2019s not about living like a hermit as much as possible. It\u2019s about what task or vision you are trying to accomplish, and what\u2019s the least technologically invasive way to go about it. And that\u2019s a beautiful question. It\u2019s actually similar to how Porsche goes about designing its cars, as Jerry Seinfeld explains to Jay Leno. See video (1:24 mark) in footnotes![1]<\/a> And here he talks about more Porsches and minimalism.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

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So, in light of all of this, and because a few people seemed interested on my thoughts on this book, here is a brief response to the some of the most crucial ideas written about by Newport<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Digital declutter.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well I can’t do that. I need to be on facebook to schmooze my products and ministries. I need to berate people\u2019s feeds so they might partner or subscribe. But maybe I could just stop my own personal life posts and keep social media for minsitry\/business? But if I don\u2019t post personally, people will feel all my professional posts are all just gimmicks. But Newport gave the point that if you need it for work, you could set up rules around it.<\/p>\n

New Economics<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Love this. Whenever I read about this and Thoreau it blows me away that he was writing in the mid-1800s. His essential argument is to also consider life costs. A car may be only $5,000 dollars but what is the time stress and money to secure and maintain the car? What is the cost, but also what is the costs?<\/p>\n

Ask 3 questions about technology, before you implement it.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n