Digital Minimalism for entrepreneurs and creators
There are so many tools out there for creators and so many apps, interfaces, and stuff that we can use.
The amount of tools is only growing by the day and the fragmentation of each of these tools into very niche and unique solutions doesn’t make it easier to navigate.
In the past, a tool was meant to get the job done. Nowadays it feels as if the tools are more important than the actual work being done.
You see this a lot with PKM enthusiasts who spend more time tinkering their obsidian app rather than actually creating.
What is the purpose?
We have to ask ourselves what is our purpose, what is our goal with these tools?
Is it to mess around with tools, explore features, and test new products?
Or is it to create, to build, to encapsulate our beautiful creations in the echoes of time
Humanity is “the most productive” that it has ever been, but what is it that is being created for which we are sacrificing so much of our time, attention, energy, and freedom?
More apps, more data, more time on the web, social media, and other time vortexes – places where you think you spent 5 minutes which turn out to be 5 hours.
We are throwing our lives away to technology
Technology is beautiful and amazing when it is used to improve our lives
Yet little by little it is taking over any meaningful idea that humanity has created.
Why write a book using chatgpt? what’s the point in it?
That’s just one example that came to my mind.
I mean, if you write a book with chatgpt, that the user will then ask to summarize with ai, and never even read it – then where is the human interaction?
Where is the experience?
We are here to experience in life, and now it’s all just too desentizing to our senses.
Everything is sterile and you live in your own little bubble that you perfectly curate.
It’s pretty awesome but we need more than that.
We need a place for human interaction
We need a place for real creation, for innovation, and for growth.
We deserve better and I have a feeling that becoming more minimalist with technology is a key in this process.
