What is digital minimalism?

Digital minimalism is a concept in personal epistemology: Your phone home screen app arrangement and notifications architecture your digital choices.

Example: You unlock your phone to check the weather. The home screen shows Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and a news app — all above the fold, all with red notification badges. Fourteen minutes later you're watching a video about a topic you don't care about, the weather still unchecked. You didn't choose to spend fourteen minutes on YouTube. Your home screen chose for you. The apps you place at thumb-reach are the behaviors you'll perform most often — not because you decided to, but because the environment made them the path of least resistance.

This concept is part of Phase 38 (Choice Architecture) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for choice architecture.