A Call to Cut Back Online Addictions. Pitted Against Just One More Click.<br />“We’re past the stage where they’re novel, but not to the point where they’re stable.”<br />He estimated that nearly 2,000 people worldwide said they would participate in his challenge, tailoring their restrictions to match their work demands<br />but hoping to at least limit their daily diet of news and social media.<br />With Silicon Valley under pressure to address the addictive quality of its innovations, Mr. Newport described his informal<br />experiment as a way for people to control their digital intake, particularly since the 2016 presidential election.<br />Mr. Newport, who runs a blog about managing digital productivity, encouraged his thousands of readers<br />to remove every piece of digital interaction that wasn’t critical to their work and lives.<br />“Going completely cold turkey in all of these different realms at once was too much.”<br />The challenge through January was issued by Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.
