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Jason A. Heppler

Digital Jubilee

Frank Chimero:

This year, I’m practicing a digital jubilee by archiving my inbox, deleting my RSS subscriptions, and unfollowing most everyone on Twitter. These, of course, will fill back up as time passes, but now I have a recurring way to purge. Practices like these have been coined “declaring bankruptcy” by the digital lifestyle blogs, but I think the phrase misrepresents the practice. Cleaning the digital slate is not a practice of giving up. It is one of self-forgiveness.

This sounds like a great idea.

Jason A. Heppler
Jason A. Heppler Environmental & digital historian

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Occasional writing on the American West, agricultural history, and political culture.