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Intentional tech use requires defining the tool’s purpose

Before adopting a new application, you must strictly define the specific problem it solves and limit its use to that boundary. This directly parallels how The Unix philosophy advocates doing one thing well.¹

Footnotes

1. Newport, C. (2019). Digital Minimalism. ↩