How Digital Minimalism Can Help You Reclaim Your Time and Your Life

As you might strategize the best use of your work time, the point is to do the same with your leisure time.

Between the likes, follows, and tweets, it can be hard to remember to stop and smell the flowers. Mario Tama/Getty Images

It’s old wisdom for a new world.

In his new book “Digital Minimalism,” author and Georgetown professor Cal Newport cites Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor who wrote “Meditations” as his private reflections on life.